Trump Labor Nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer Faces Pressure at Senate Hearing
President Trump’s pick as labor secretary faced pointed questions from both parties at her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday over ...
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As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril
A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for ...
Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Employees and Scale Back Exhibitions
The Brooklyn Museum said Friday that it would soon cut more than 40 employees — between 10 and 13 percent ...
Trump Moves to Invalidate Recent Labor Agreements With Federal Workers
In the latest effort to put his stamp on the federal work force, President Trump on Friday issued a memorandum ...
Jay Mazur, Zealous Advocate for Garment Workers, Dies at 92
Jay Mazur, a blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader who was president of American garment workers’ unions in the 1980s and ’90s, ...
Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union
Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia voted on Monday to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery ...
Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market
At a sprawling Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, a battle is brewing. The roughly 300 workers are set to vote ...
Remote Work for Civil Servants Faces a Challenge Under Trump
When the Social Security Administration agreed to a five-year extension of work-from-home arrangements for tens of thousands of employees in ...
What to Know About Plane Maintenance After the South Korean Crash
The cause of the fatal plane crash in South Korea last month is still to be determined, but it thrust ...
Cleveland-Cliffs Signals a Possible New Bid for U.S. Steel
A possible new takeover bid for U.S. Steel emerged on Monday, teeing up more turmoil over the once-dominant company’s future ...
Park City Strike Ends With Increase in Wages for Ski Patrollers
Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain in Utah triumphantly returned to the slopes on Thursday, after ending a nearly two-week ...
SEIU Joins Forces With AFL-CIO Ahead of New Trump Era
Two prominent labor groups are joining forces in an attempt to expand union membership and protect members’ interests as they ...
Port Labor Talks Hinge on Deal on Automation
Ports on the East and Gulf Coasts could close next week if dockworkers and employers cannot overcome their big differences ...
U.A.W. Seeks Union Election at Ford Battery Plant in Kentucky
The United Automobile Workers union is seeking approval from federal labor regulators for a union election among workers at a ...
Journalists at The Athletic Move to Join New York Times Union
Journalists at The Athletic, a sports news website owned by The New York Times, intend to unionize, they said on ...
Trump tells dockworkers union facing expiring contract that ports shouldn’t install more automated systems
The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ...
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