Andrea Hsu
Stories
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Business
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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National
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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National
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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Politics
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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Business
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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Business
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.
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Business
Coming off big wins at the bargaining table, what's ahead for unions in 2024?
From autoworkers to actors. Nurses to newspaper reporters. More than half a million workers went on strike this year, and many emerged with big wins. Is this a union comeback?
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Technology
AI on the job. Some reviews are in. Useful, irresistible, scary
In the year since ChatGPT was released, people have been figuring out what it's good at, what it's not good at, and how AI tools will change how we live and work.
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Business
GM autoworkers' contract appears likely to pass over many workers' objections
Even with pay raises of 25% and other improvements on the table, a large share of General Motors autoworkers are voting to reject the contract reached after a nearly seven-week strike.
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Business
The 4-day workweek: How one Ohio manufacturer is making it work
Of the hundreds of companies that have tried a four-day workweek, very few are manufacturers. Advanced RV in Willoughby, Ohio, is showing how it can be done.