Labor Unions

A new Economic Policy Institute report finds workers in the 26 states with right-to-work laws earn nearly 7% less on average than those in states without them, a gap that has more than doubled over the last decade.

How the nation’s largest federation of labor unions is approaching AI ahead of the midterm elections.

Some companies argue that unions mobilize workers around certain issues or candidates — but union leaders are often democratically elected.

Workers were watching as strikers won concessions from Hollywood studios and Detroit automakers.

They provide essential services like emergency rescue and avalanche prevention, but they often can’t afford to live near where they work.

Nashville’s Yellow Freight — one of the only union shops in trucking — shut down operations in August, leaving 30,000 people without work.

The union is making a bet that inconvenienced drivers will side with them – which would put pressure on the Big Three car companies to make a deal.

Solid Inventory is keeping some worries away for now. But a prolonged strike could hurt the industry, one expert says.

The United Auto Workers may focus its actions on specific plants, instead of organizing a broad work stoppage, if contract negotiations fail.

It may be a strategy to cope with the electric vehicle transition.