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Amazon India workers say they're overworked and mistreated during a brutal heat wave

6:00am September 30, 2024

Amazon India says it ensures breaks and worker safety, but workers tell NPR they're pressured not to stop for water or to use the toilet, especially while processing same-day orders.

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Economy

Illinois bans companies from forcing workers to listen to their anti-union talk

2:36pm July 31, 2024

by Andrea Hsu

Illinois is the 8th state to adopt a law making it illegal for employers to hold mandatory religious, political or anti-union meetings, a move aimed at helping workers trying to unionize.

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People hold signs supporting Starbucks workers outside a Starbucks on New York's Upper West Side on Thursday.

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Thousands of Starbucks workers go on a one-day strike on one of chain's busiest days

1:21pm November 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

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.

Autoworkers at Mercedes plant in Vance, Ala., assemble an all-electric SUV.

Economy

Here's one potential winner from the UAW strike: Non-union auto workers in the South

5:00am September 22, 2023

by Stephan Bisaha

If the UAW strike leads to a win for the union, southern auto workers believe that will lead to a pay up at plants like Nissan and Mercedes.

UPS workers are voting on whether to approve a deal negotiated by Teamsters leadership.

National

UPS union negotiated a historic contract. Now workers have the final say

2:41pm August 11, 2023

by Danielle Kaye

The Teamsters union reached a tentative deal with UPS, narrowly averting a nationwide strike. Rank-and-file union members are voting on whether to approve the contract.

Negotiations between UPS and the union representing the company's workers broke down last week with each side blaming the other for walking away from talks.

Economy

How a UPS strike could disrupt deliveries and roil the package delivery business

5:00am July 12, 2023

by Danielle Kaye

A strike by UPS workers would likely mean package delays for consumers across the country and it would shake up an increasingly competitive industry.

A pedestrian walks by REI's flagship store in New York, where last year workers formed the company's first union.

National

REI fostered a progressive reputation. Then its workers began to unionize

5:00am July 06, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

REI, the shopping mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, has balked at recognizing its newly unionized workers. They accuse the retailer of breaking labor laws, which the company denies.

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this job posting from Citi with a $2,000,000 salary range caught attention on social media

Economy

The big reveal: New laws require companies to disclose pay ranges on job postings.

7:00am November 05, 2022

by Stacey Vanek Smith

On Nov. 1, New York joined a handful of places across the country that require companies to disclose salary ranges when they post jobs. But transparency isn't easy.

David Williams is a stocker at a Dollar General store in New Orleans. He's pushing for better work conditions and pay at his store with help from Step Up Louisiana.

Economy

Dollar store workers in the South have a labor movement. Just don't call it a union

8:29am September 03, 2022

by Stephan Bisaha

Unions aren't popular in the South. That's one reason why a labor organizing campaign at Dolllar General stores in Louisiana doesn't use the u-word.

National

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store

1:11am June 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, joining a growing push across U.S. industries to organize for workplace protections.