VISALIA, Calif.—A Coachella Valley date farm will rehire four workers and has paid them almost $40,000 in lost wages after the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board found they were illegally
TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Quebec—The Alcoa aluminum company “is indicating clearly that it is not interested in settling a nine-month lockout” of 1,030 employees at its ABI smelter in Bécancour, Quebec, the United
HONOLULU, Hawaii—The strike by 7,700 Marriott hotel workers expanded to eight U.S. cities Oct. 8, with staff out at 23 hotels in Boston, Detroit, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, San
BURNS HARBOR, Ind.—With more than three months of contract talks failing to yield a deal, the United Steelworkers have begun preparations for a possible strike against ArcelorMittal. Union representatives are
BOSTON, Mass.—In the first hotel strike in Boston history, more than 1,500 workers at seven Marriott hotels walked out on the morning of Oct. 3. “After five years of record
CHICAGO, Ill.—More than half the 6,000 hotel workers who went on strike here Sept. 7 have won contracts that give them health insurance if they are laid off in the
SEATTLE, Wash.—A 45-minute training video Amazon sent managers at Whole Foods last month tells them it’s OK to tell workers that “unions are lying, cheating rats”—as long as it’s their
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—A federal appeals court ruled Sept. 25 that Uber drivers in California cannot file a class-action suit to be treated as employees instead of independent contractors. A three-judge
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The ballot initiative to raise Arkansas’ minimum wage from $8.50 an hour to $11 by 2021 overcame one hurdle Sept. 24, when a magistrate ruled that petitioners for
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Sept. 19 declaring that public-employee unions cannot be forced to reimburse nonmembers for “fair share fees” paid before the Supreme Court ruled
