MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google employees charge that the company’s leadership is developing an addition to the custom Google Chrome browser they use on the job that is intended to spy on
SANTA FE, N.M.—The state of New Mexico and the Communications Workers of America have agreed to pay about $41,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit over the collection of fees for
REGINA, Saskatchewan—Strikers at six Saskatchewan utilities began returning to work Oct. 21, after they reached a tentative contract agreement with the Unifor union. The five-year deal, announced by the provincial
LANSING, Mich.—Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Oct. 24 that she plans to increase the number of workers in the state eligible for overtime pay. Only 5% of Michigan workers now get
CHICAGO, Ill.—Chicago Teachers Union negotiators said they were optimistic as contract talks resumed Oct. 25, the seventh day of the strike by more than 30,000 teachers and support staff. “Things
BINGHAMTON, N.Y.— Binghamton University professor M. Stanley Whittingham, a member of the United University Professions/New York State United Teachers, was one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize
TUCSON, Ariz.—More than 1,700 copper-mine workers in southern Arizona and Texas went on strike Oct. 13, after going almost 10 years without a pay increase. The strike involves several unions
WASHINGTON—Retirees from several unions joined Democratic senators on Capitol Hill Oct. 16 to demand that the Senate act on a bill to prevent endangered multiemployer pension plans from going bankrupt.
OAKLAND, Calif.—Workers at the Kaiser Permanente health-care chain in California have overwhelmingly ratified a four-year contract, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West announced Oct. 16. The union said the deal would give
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union announced Oct. 15 that it had reached a tentative contract agreement with the trade group representing Philadelphia office-building owners. The deal
