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Supporters and members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union demonstrate March 13, 2021, outside the warehouse where Amazon workers are voting whether to join the union in Bessemer, Alabama. Amazon is facing increasing labor unrest in the United States.

‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide.

March 22, 2021 at 1:49 p.m.

Inspired by the high-profile campaign to unionize an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Alabama, workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California have begun exploring ways to form unions...

New rules for employers issued by the National Labor Relations Board make it easier to fire employees for speaking about labor conditions.

It’s now even easier to fire US workers for what they say

July 31, 2020 at 10:32 a.m.

Employers in the U.S. just got more latitude to fire employees who speak up about harassment and discrimination. They can already legally terminate people for almost any reason, including what...

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It’s now even easier to fire U.S. workers for what they say

July 30, 2020 at 4:57 p.m.

Employers in the U.S. just got more latitude to fire employees who speak up about harassment and discrimination. They can already legally terminate people for almost any reason, including what...

Dreamliner 787s sit on the production line at Boeing's final assembly facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Dec. 6, 2016.

In S.C., Boeing goes all out to defeat Wednesday’s vote on union

June 5, 2018 at 11:04 p.m.

At a Monday rally in a North Charleston hotel conference room, South Carolina state Rep. David Mack, D, looked out on about a hundred supporters of the long-shot campaign to...

Unions are scared, mad, thrilled as Trump deepens old divisions

June 6, 2018 at 2:19 a.m.

Donald Trump's presidency presents unions with the threat that unified Republican governance will bring sweeping, hostile changes to laws they hold dear. Labor has responded with a muddle of denunciation,...

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