WASHINGTON—Trump administration proposals to revamp regulations in order to let more 16- and 17-year-olds perform hazardous jobs has piqued the ire of 47 House Democrats. The Department of Labor has
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Verizon has reached a tentative deal with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to extend their current contract from 2019 to 2023. If
DETROIT, Mich.—Service Employees International Union Local 1 janitors announced July 23 that they had voted to authorize a strike when their contract expires Aug. 1. The union, which represents about
FOX CROSSING, Wisc.—Union workers at Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s Cold Spring facility ratified a contract July 23 intended to stave off the plant’s closing, but the company says it still needs state
DETROIT, Mich.—Federal employees held protests around the nation July 24 against three executive orders by President Donald Trump that would make it easier to fire workers, let federal agencies impose
ANAHEIM, Calif.—The Walt Disney Co. reached a tentative contract agreement July 23 with four unions representing about 9,700 workers at Disneyland and its surrounding businesses—but are now likely to lock
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The editorial staff at The Intercept investigative-news site unanimously ratified its first union contract, the Writers Guild of America, East announced July 25. The three-year deal contains numerous
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—Discussions July 18 on how to fund the state’s health-insurance program for its workers were overshadowed by Senate President Mitch Carmichael’s Twitter denunciations of teachers’ unions for supporting
DETROIT, Mich.—Hundreds of retirees and union workers joined House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and the heads of the Teamsters and United Auto Workers in Detroit July 20 for a town-hall
LINCOLN, Neb.—State prison and security workers voted overwhelmingly July 19 to switch their union from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ state affiliate to the Fraternal Order
