Labor unions

Tens of thousands of hospitality workers in Las Vegas have voted to authorize a strike that could disrupt dozens of hotels and casinos.

President Joe Biden has joined picketing United Auto Workers in Michigan on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers. It’s a demonstration of support for organized labor apparently unparalleled in presidential history.

The auto workers’ strike against Detroit’s Big Three is now in its fourth day. There were no signs Monday of an early breakthrough that might end the strike, and the United Auto Workers have threatened to escalate their walkout against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.

The United Auto Workers union has made CEO pay a central part of their argument for a big worker wage increase.

The United Auto Workers strike has exposed tensions between President Joe Biden’s goals of fighting climate change and supporting unions.

Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday at Detroit’s three automakers.

President Joe Biden announced Friday his administration is sending top aides to Detroit to help with the contract negotiations between United Auto Workers and the three major automakers, saying employers should share profits with unionized workers.

Here’s a rundown of the issues standing in the way of new contract agreements and what consumers could face in a prolonged strike

About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay.

The United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers remain far apart ahead of the union potentially striking the companies after Thursday’s deadline. Judy Ancel, the former director of the Institute for Labor Studies at the University of Missouri, reflects on the history behind those talks.

About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on strike this week if General Motors, Ford and Stellantis fail to meet their demands for big pay raises and the restoration of concessions the workers made years ago when the companies were in financial trouble.

A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. Theses are demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed.

UAW members overwhelmingly granted union leaders authorization to strike during ongoing contract negotiations with GM, Ford and Stellantis, if warranted.

The union representing 340,000 UPS workers says its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last month.

Drastic changes in consumer demands are driving labor unrest in diverse industries upended by technology.

Annual profits at UPS in the past two years are close to three times what they were before the pandemic.

A little more than a week after contract talks between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of its workers broke down, UPS said it will begin training many of its non-union employees in the U.S. to step in should there be a strike, which the union has vowed to do if no agreement is reached by the end of this...

Contract negotiations between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of the company’s workers broke down early Wednesday morning with each side blaming the other for walking away from talks. In recent days, the Teamsters had imposed several deadlines for United Parcel Service negotiators to make their “last, best and final” offer to its unionized workers. Union officials said that UPS...

Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job Sunday, demanding higher pay and better benefits in what the union is calling the largest strike in its history.

The “parental rights” group Moms for Liberty is looking to expand its efforts to elect school board candidates in 2024 and beyond, as well as get involved in other education races.