Unions

The Communications Workers of America told FOX Business that the decision to withdraw was due to "intimidation" from Apple and rising COVID infections among store employees.

A Starbucks shop in Birmingham, Alabama, has voted to unionize following a 27-1 vote on Thursday and would be represented by Workers United if the vote stands.

According to the Air Line Pilots Association, its members authorized union leaders to call a strike if necessary and when permitted after a prolonged process managed by the National Mediation Board.

Prior to the vote, Activision declined to voluntarily recognize the Game Workers Alliance. They also urged workers to "consider the consequences" of signing union authorization cards.

A group of Apple employees in Maryland known as AppleCORE will hold a union election June 15 after filing a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in May.

The Communications Workers of America has accused Apple of violating federal labor laws at its World Trade Center store through illegal activities including "interrogating staff, surveillance, restricting the posting of union fliers and requiring employees to attend mandatory anti-union speeches."

The war of words between Jeff Bezos and the Biden administration picked up steam on Monday, as the Amazon founder accused the White House of trying to “muddy the topic” on inflation's relationship with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.

In early February, seven union activists in Memphis were all fired on the same day, “including five of the six members of the union organizing committee,” according to the labor board.

President Biden hosted Amazon union drive leader Christian Smalls at the White House.

Workers at Amazon and Starbucks have been the faces of the pro-union movements but behind the scenes action by the NLRB may suggest an even more aggressive move.

Hundreds of healthcare workers kicked off a planned 5-day strike Monday morning in front of Cedars-Sinai hospital to protest what they allege are “unfair labor practices, short staffing, and high patient infection rates.”

The Amazon warehouse in Staten Island held the first successful organizing effort in the company's history.

If the workers are successful, the Cumberland Mall store would become Apple's first unionized retail location.

Amazon scored a victory in New York as a second attempt to unionize a warehouse failed.

Union workers reached a deal with Raytheon subsidiary Pratt & Whitney at two Connecticut jet engine manufacturing plants on Sunday.

San Francisco food company Amy's Kitchen is deadlocked as its workforce, leadership and a local union struggle for control of a factory.

Unionization efforts are mounting nationwide. While some of those efforts are kicking off in right-to-work states, others are not. That distinction is important because it will determine if employees, regardless if they want to join the union, will be forced to pay dues.

An onslaught of labor organizers are pushing to unionize workers around the country in hopes of giving employees a voice against large corporations like Starbucks, Amazon and Apple.

The new boarding pay policy will take effect on all flights beginning June 2, and the rates will be based on the length of scheduled boarding time, the carrier said in an internal memo.

Apple Store employees at the tech giant's Cumberland Mall location in Atlanta, Georgia, have filed for a union election with the National Relations Board, becoming the first group of the company's retail workers to seek formal recognition.