Costco, Teamsters reach tentative contract agreement and avoid strike
Details of the agreement between Costco and the Teamsters union weren't immediately available.
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Details of the agreement between Costco and the Teamsters union weren't immediately available.
About 1,100 workers at the Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio, are facing layoffs early next year.
The strike, the first by East and Gulf Coast dockworkers since 1977, had shut down 14 ports since Tuesday.
Thousands of dockworkers at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike in search of higher pay and better job security in the face of automation.
Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade is one of the nation's largest, and it doubles as a political event.
Democrats once had a grip on blue-collar voters. Now, they must make their case to this key demographic that could play a decisive role in the election.
A union official said West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees' health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel.
The authorization does not mean a strike will happen immediately and both sides could reach a deal. If a strike does happen, it would be the first at Disneyland in 40 years.
The NLRB is seeking an injunction amid labor law violations.
Members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 Union voted against the 3-year contract offer.
Last year striking workers won more generous contracts from the Big Three automakers, making up for pay cuts taken during the Great Recession, and marking a comeback for the labor movement.
The pact with Stellantis comes just days after the UAW struck a similar deal with Ford, leaving only GM without an agreement.
With the tentative deal reached with Ford, the UAW will now be able to use it to model similar contract settlements with GM and Stellantis.
Arlington Assembly in Texas is where GM workers produce the Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon and the Cadillac Escalade.
Companies that supply auto parts to Detroit's Big Three have also laid off hundreds of employees in recent weeks.
UAW President Shawn Fain said 7,000 union workers in Chicago and Lansing, Michigan, will join the historic strike.
Conway became an activist in USW Local 6787 in 1978 while working at the Burns Harbor Works of Bethlehem Steel.
Work stoppage at Detroit automakers could dent the car industry and dampen broader U.S. economic growth.
The country's largest locomotive manufacturer and its striking union workers have reached a tentative agreement that could end a two-month strike that saw about 1,400 people walk off the job at its Pennsylvania plant.
SEIU and AFSCME members are coming off a 4-year contract that expired July 1 after delivering raises of 16.75% over the contract's life.
The Erie County executive said he was concerned Wabtec may be considering a plant closure and outsourcing of its operations.
Teamsters Union and UPS have failed to agree a deal on a new contract that would cover 340,000 workers.
Thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey's flagship university have gone on strike — the first such job action in the school's 257-year history.
Amid nationwide shortages in police officers, nurses and teachers, a central plank in Gov. Josh Shapiro's effort to attract more people into Pennsylvania's ranks is a financial incentive that many new recruits may not fully receive.
After a decline in union membership in recent decades, there seems to be a bit of a comeback for labor unions.
