Unions

A separate election held last month gave a nascent group of organizers a surprise victory when workers at a different Staten Island facility voted in favor of unionizing — a first for Amazon in the U.S.

Results in the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse election remain too close to call and hinge on several hundred challenged ballots.

Massachusetts Senate staffers attempting to unionize their ranks are still waiting for a reply from Senate President Karen Spilka and looking ahead to a law change that could be necessary to unionize a group of legislative employees. The group of Senate aides announced their intent to unionize with IBEW Local 2222 on Monday, after IBEW delivered a letter to Spilka’s…

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted to become the company’s first unionized facility in the U.S., which stands to disrupt the company’s control over productivity and wages.

In a union election in Staten Island, New York, the nascent Amazon Labor Union was leading late Thursday by more than 350 votes out of about 2,670 tallied.

U.S. union membership levels are ticking upward for workers between 25 and 34, even as they decline among other age groups.

Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize on Thursday, the latest sign that the labor movement is stirring after decades of decline

President Joe Biden spoke at a union event in Michigan on Tuesday to rally support for his infrastructure and “Build Back Better” bills, saying, “The first is a bill to invest in our physical infrastructure, and the second is a bill to invest in our human infrastructure … these bills are not about left versus right.”

Democrats swapped breakfast items for barbecue Monday as they rang in Labor Day with a rally in Boston built on party priorities and punctuated by remarks from the candidates in the competitive and unpredictable race for mayor of Boston. Organized labor officials hosted a rally and BBQ at Copley Place “to support frontline workers and to build back better with…

Sue O’Connell sat down with Sean O’Brien, president and principal officer of Teamsters Local 25, who reacted to Bezos’ comments thanking Amazon customers and employees for helping him reach the edge of space. He also talked about some of the grievances levied against Amazon.

The South has never been hospitable to organized labor

The professional firefighters of Massachusetts union is scheduled to meet with the Massachusetts teachers association and state health officials Wednesday to discuss a proposal to have firefighters administer the shots.

The professional firefighters of Massachusetts union was scheduled to meet with the Massachusetts Teachers Association and state health officials Wednesday to discuss a proposal to have firefighters administer COVID-19 shots to educators. However, the meeting was postponed until Thursday, according to an MTA official. The postponement came as Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced the state’s seven mass vaccination sites...

The House has approved Democratic legislation that would invigorate workers’ unions following decades of court defeats and legislative setbacks.