LORDSTOWN, Ohio—Next month, General Motors’ Lordstown Complex will no longer have two separate United Auto Workers locals. The UAW announced in September that Local 1714, which represents fabrication workers, would
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s nominee to be a federal appeals-court judge covering Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi has come under fire for statements mocking the idea that women face discrimination in the workplace.
OLATHE, Kan.—Truck drivers at the giant Sysco food-service company’s Olathe, Kan., distribution center went on strike at 4 a.m. Nov. 16 “after management allegedly threatened reprisals for the workers’ union
ALBANY, N.Y.—After going five years without a contract, New York State Thruway workers have reached a tentative deal. Members of Teamsters Local 72, which represents about 2,500 toll collectors, maintenance
HOUSTON, Tex.—With much of the work cleaning up debris from Hurricane Harvey being done by undocumented immigrants, wage theft has spiked since the late-August storm flooded the area.
RALEIGH, N.C.—North Carolina’s Farm Labor Organizing Committee filed a suit Nov. 15 challenging a state law that sharply restricts union activity in agriculture.
WASHINGTON—A bill introduced in Congress Nov. 16 would attempt to salvage the country’s floundering multiemployer pension plans thorough a combination of federal loans and insurance.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court will not review a lower-court ruling holding that Illinois child-care providers and home health-care assistants cannot refuse to be represented by the Service Employees International Union.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—With the Supreme Court likely to eliminate fair-share fees for public-sector unions next year—in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees—California’s unions are preparing to absorb
NEW YORK, N.Y.—A Queens man illegally fired for trying to form a union at his job has won $30,000 from the company. In a settlement with the National Labor Relations
