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LAS VEGAS—A union representing hospitality workers has reached a tentative agreement with four hotel-casinos in downtown Las Vegas as employees at three other properties remained poised to strike Monday when the city kicks off Super Bowl week. By Saturday morning, the Culinary Workers Union had announced it had reached a tentative five-year contract with Binion’s, […]

Former President Donald Trump met with members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union on Wednesday to seek their endorsement for the presidency. After the meeting, President Trump said it was productive and that General President Sean M. O’Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman are “terrific people” and “great leaders.” “Stranger things have happened. Usually, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—California State University (CSU) faculty members reached a tentative contract agreement Monday, the same day that nearly 30,000 professors, librarians, coaches, and other workers struck at the nation’s largest public university system, their union announced. Members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) will return to work Tuesday instead of continuing their planned weeklong walkout […]

NEW YORK—Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company’s stores. The Workers United union chose Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day to stage the walkout since it’s usually one of the busiest days of […]

Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union members rally on Oct. 20 ahead of the 100th day of the union strike.

The actors’ picket line outside Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles at 12:45 p.m. ET on Oct. 6, at the end of the first week of negotiations between their union and studios/streamers.

The coalition of the eight unions representing 75,000 employees of health care company, late Saturday they have not reached an agreement with the company.  

The Culinary Workers Union (CWU), which represents tens of thousands of Las Vegas hotel and casino workers, is the latest major union to authorize a strike. It’s the first time in more than three decades that CWU members have voted to walk off the job. On Sept. 26, 95 percent of CWU members who turned […]

United Auto Workers (UAW) union members have gone on strike against the three biggest automakers for the first time in history after failing to reach a deal on a new labor contract by the 11:59 p.m. Sept. 14 deadline. Despite weeks of negotiations, the union was unable to come to an agreement over contract negotiations with General […]

A crowd that gathered in New York City’s Union Square Park for a social media personality who was holding a giveaway descended into chaos on Friday afternoon, leading to multiple arrests. Kai Cenat, a popular 21-year-old livestreamer with millions of followers on Twitch, Youtube, and Instagram, who had promoted the giveaway, has been charged two […]

The United Parcel Service (UPS) and the Teamsters union have announced that the two sides have struck a deal on a new contract, averting the threat of a strike. The Teamsters union, which represents some 1.2 million workers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, said in a July 25 statement that it had […]

A federal appeals court on Friday said it will reconsider its recent decision that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk violated federal labor law by posting on Twitter that employees would lose stock options if they joined a union. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans granted Tesla’s request to revisit the case […]

A marathon negotiating session between the UPS and the teamsters’ union ended early Wednesday without a deal to avoid a strike.  

President Joe Biden will hold his first campaign event Saturday for his 2024 run. What can be expected, as both Biden and former President Donald Trump are stepping up their fundraising efforts?

NEW YORK—Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain. The strike involves hundreds of journalists at newspapers in eight states, including the Arizona Republic, the Austin American-Statesman, the Bergen […]

President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have been sued by a union representing some 75,000 government employees demanding that the administration ignore the debt ceiling on grounds that the borrowing limit is unconstitutional. The National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), which filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Boston on Monday, argues that […]

All Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) schools closed March 21 as the district’s two unions kicked off a three-day strike demanding more pay and benefits. Members of SEIU Local 99, the union representing the district’s 30,000 non-teaching staff—including cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians and special education assistants—said in a March 21 press conference that […]