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Moon Rabbit, Popular Award-Winning DC Restaurant, Has Closed Amid Unionization Fight
Moon Rabbit, the popular Vietnamese restaurant at The Wharf’s InterContinental Hotel, has received sky-high praise since it opened in 2020. But at the end of service on Monday, May 22, Moon Rabbit closed its doors for good, amid a unionization fight between hotel management and servers at the restaurant.
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Pilots at United Picket for Higher Pay as Pressure Builds Before Summer Travel Season
United Airlines pilots walked picket lines at 10 big U.S. airports on Friday, although they’re not on strike.
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Pro-Labor? Biden Aims to Prove It With Unionized 2024 Staff
Joe Biden likes to say he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When Biden announces his expected Democratic reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he’ll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers. Biden’s will be the first White House reelection campaign with a unionized workforce. The move allows Biden to further demonstrate to his base just...
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Pro-Labor? Biden Aims to Prove It With Unionized 2024 Staff
Joe Biden likes to say he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When Biden announces his expected Democratic reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he’ll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers. Biden’s will be the first White House reelection campaign with a unionized workforce. The move allows Biden to further demonstrate to his base just...
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Starbucks Committed ‘Egregious and Widespread' Labor Violations in Union Fight, Judge Rules
A federal labor judge has ordered Starbucks to reinstate fired workers and reopen a shuttered branch after finding that the company violated labor laws “hundreds of times” during a unionization campaign.
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Bernie Sanders Schedules Vote to Force Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to Testify About Unionization Effort
Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the stakes in his effort to get Starbucks’ interim CEO Howard Schultz to testify at a Senate hearing about an ongoing unionization effort at the company.
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Tesla Denies Autopilot Workers' Allegations of Union-Busting, Retaliatory Firings
Tesla fired more than 30 employees at its Buffalo facility in retaliation for a union push, organizers said in a complaint filed to a federal labor agency.
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Starbucks Workers Begin 3-Day Walkout at 100 US Stores
Starbucks workers around the U.S. have begun a three-day strike. The walkouts are part of their effort to unionize the coffee chain’s stores. Starbucks Workers United says more than 1,000 baristas at 100 stores are planning to walk out. The strike will be the longest in the year-old unionization campaign. More than 264 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have...
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Biden Signs Bill Enforcing Agreement to Avoid Rail Strike
Members in four of the 12 unions involved had rejected the proposed contract as lacking sufficient paid sick leave. The President acknowledged the shortcoming as he said he would continue to push for that benefit for every U.S. worker.
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Starbucks Workers Strike at More Than 100 US Stores on Busy Red Cup Day
Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.
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Biden Says Tentative Railway Labor Deal Reached, Averting Strike
Railroads and union representatives had been in negotiations for 20 hours at the Labor Department on Wednesday to hammer out a deal, as there was a risk of a strike starting on Friday that could have shut down rail lines across the country.
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History of Labor Day
Labor Day is a national holiday dedicated to celebrating the contributions and achievements of American workers. Here’s a history of the holiday from the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Lululemon Workers in Georgetown File for Union Election
Lululemon workers in Washington, D.C., have filed for a union election, joining workers at other major companies aiming to organize amid a wave of labor wins over the past year.
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Apple Workers in Maryland Vote for Company's First Unionized Store in U.S.
The Towson, Maryland store is not one of Apple’s so-called “flagship” stores. It’s a smaller location inside a mall that serves a local population.
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Less Immigrant Labor in US Contributing to Price Hikes
The U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage that’s partly fueled by a drop-off in immigration, which ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Alaska Airlines Cancels Dozens of Flights as Pilots Picket
Pilots have been in contract negotiations with the airline for nearly three years and the two sides are at an impasse.
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Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote for Company's First Unionized Warehouse in U.S.
The outcome represents a landmark win for organized labor, which has for years tried to organize Amazon warehouse and delivery workers.
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Amazon Staff Again Reject Union in Alabama for Now, Lean Toward It in NYC
In a union election in Staten Island, New York, the nascent Amazon Labor Union was leading late Thursday by more than 350 votes out of about 2,670 tallied.
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Covid Upended the Labor Market, and Now These Workers Are Using Their Leverage to Push for Unions
Warehouse and store employees seeking union membership feel they have no seat at the table, and they’ve put companies on notice.
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JetBlue Urges Flight Attendants to Accept Assignments as It Races to Hire 700 People by Summer
JetBlue and other airlines are hiring thousands of employees to cater to a snapback in travel demand.