The United Auto Workers are getting pushback from Southern Republicans, but gains in Detroit are driving interest in Alabama and elsewhere.

A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Dartmouth’s men’s basketball players are employees who can form a union.

Unions are more visible and vocal than they’ve been in decades. If the labor market remains tight, they’ll have negotiating leverage.

Union members from the auto industry to Hollywood actors are currently taking the votes. They are more than a rubber-stamping process.

California is one of 11 states that allows in-home child care providers to bargain collectively. This year, the union that represents 40,000 of these workers in that state won big in their fight for better pay and benefits. 

Petitioning for union representation is just the first step in forming a union, and not all efforts make it to the finish line.

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

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

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of workers who went on strike increased almost 50% last year, compared to 2021.

They want the residuals and better working conditions other guilds have obtained for members.