Andrea Hsu
Stories
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U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban employment agreements that typically prevent workers from leaving their companies for competitors, or starting competing businesses of their own.
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Why this vote at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant is historic for the South
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., are voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Two previous attempts to unionize the plant failed. Ballots will be counted on Friday.
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Seeking to defy history, the UAW is coming closer to unionizing in the South
Autoworkers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., will vote in mid-April on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Mercedes workers in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., will soon follow.
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It's Equal Pay Day. Women earn 84 cents for every dollar men make — or even less
Women working full-time, year-round jobs earn 84 cents for every dollar men make, and part-timers make even less. Women have to work well into March before they earn what men made the year before.
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Dartmouth men's basketball team votes to unionize, shaking up college sports
The Dartmouth men's basketball team voted 13-2 to join SEIU Local 560, making it the first unionized college sports team in the country. Dartmouth believes the election should not have gone forward.
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21 Starbucks stores see petitions for union elections in the same day
Employees at another 21 Starbucks stores have petitioned for union elections, the most in a single day since the start of the Starbucks unionizing campaign.
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Flight attendants across the country picket for better pay and working conditions
Flight attendants are picketing Tuesday at airports around the country making their case for better pay and working conditions.
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The UAW endorsed Biden — and panned Republican frontrunner Trump as a 'scab'
Most of the country's other big unions endorsed President Biden in the earliest days of his reelection campaign. But the United Auto Workers held back until today.
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Just 1 in 10 workers in the U.S. belonged to labor unions in 2023, a record low
In 2023, labor unions added 139,000 members, but the share of the workforce that's unionized declined from the year before due to even faster growth in nonunion jobs.
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Amazon, Starbucks worker unions are in limbo, even as UAW and others triumph
Amazon workers formed their first union. And at Starbucks, 380 stores are unionized, but not one has a contract. But the big, established unions have won big raises for workers.