As Starbucks workers seek a union, company officials converge on stores
A push in the Buffalo, N.Y., area could produce the first union at Starbucks company-owned stores in the U.S. But backers say moves by management...
Can a green-economy boomtown be built to last? VIEW
Makers of electric vehicles and their components, like Tesla, Lucid Motors and Lordstown Motors, have spent billions building or renovating factories and creating boomtowns that...
Biden uses array of legal tools to mandate vaccines, testing limits of his power VIEW
White House officials say President Joe Biden is “committed to pulling every lever possible” in the fight against the pandemic. Here's where he bases his...
Starbucks faces rare union challenge. Here’s what sparked the call for a vote.
A union organizing campaign among Starbucks workers in New York, if successful, could upend the Seattle-based company’s labor model. Employees say chronic understaffing has long...
McDonald’s franchise settles suit involving ‘dog diaper’ masks
Workers at a California restaurant said inadequate safety measures, including unsuitable face coverings, were to blame for a Covid-19 outbreak.
Amazon faces wider fight over labor practices
Amazon is facing a wider fight over labor practices as a second union vote may be held at an Alabama warehouse, and new tactics by...
Unions’ inflatable ‘Scabby the Rat’ protests were fair, labor board rules
Though picketing companies not directly involved in labor disputes is illegal under labor law, the board ruled that the use of oversized inflatable rats is...
One-fifth of U.S. beef capacity wiped out by cyberattack on JBS
The cyberattack on JBS could upset the nation’s meat markets and raises new questions about the vulnerability of critical American businesses. It's the second recent...
For clean energy, buy American or buy it quick and cheap?
There is a tension between the goals of industrial workers and those of environmentalists — two groups that Democrats count as politically crucial. The greater...