TORONTO, Ontario—More than 50 demonstrations took place from Vancouver to Halifax Jan. 19, urging Tim Hortons’ franchisees to rescind cutbacks they made after Ontario raised its minimum wage Jan. 1.
WASHINGTON—Federal workers furloughed during the three-day shutdown of the government will get paid for the work time they lost, under the short-term continuing-appropriations resolution signed by President Donald Trump Jan.
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—When Las Vegas’s Culinary Union begins contract talks with casino-resort operators next month, it will ask them to give each of the more than 14,000 housekeepers it represents
TORONTO, Ontario—More than 50 demonstrations took place from Vancouver to Halifax Jan. 19, urging Tim Hortons’ franchisees to rescind cutbacks they made after Ontario raised its minimum wage Jan. 1.
SEATTLE, Wash.—A proposal by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Service Employees International Union Local 775 President David Rolf, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer to create portable benefits for gig-economy workers has
WASHINGTON—Saying it would eliminate the right to union representation for more than 600,000 workers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is urging members to tell Senate Democrats to filibuster the
FRANKFORT, KY.—A Kentucky judge on Jan. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state AFL-CIO and Teamsters Local 89 to strike down the state’s 2017 law banning the union shop. The
MONTREAL, Quebec—The AFL-CIO and Mexico’s leading labor federation filed a formal complaint against Mexico with the U.S. Labor Department Jan. 25, charging that amendments proposed to Mexico’s labor law would
MADISON, Wisc.—Wisconsin Republicans are pushing a bill that would prohibit local governments from setting stronger labor standards than the state’s, including enacting or enforcing measures against discrimination, project-labor agreements that
COLUMBUS, Ohio—With the aid of some $100 million in tax breaks, Amazon has created about 6,000 jobs in Ohio in the past three years—but more than 10% of those workers
