If it goes more than a few weeks, a work stoppage would significantly snarl the nation’s supply chain, potentially leading to higher prices and delays in goods reaching households and businesses.
If roughly 45,000 U.S. longshoremen make good on their threat to strike beginning Tuesday, they could shut down 36 ports from Maine to Texas that handle about half the goods shipped into and out of the United States.
An arbitration board has ruled that U.S. Steel may proceed with its proposed acquisition by Nippon Steel, a deal that faces strong opposition from its workforce.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined said neither candidate has sufficient support from the 1.3 million-member union.
The United Auto Workers will ask members to green light a strike against Stellantis NV, escalating an already tense standoff with one of the world’s largest car manufacturers.
Anxious and angry about Stellantis’ delay, union leaders have threatened to strike, a move that could extend beyond Stellantis. Labor experts say its two Detroit-area rivals, Ford and General Motors, are watching as they weigh their own strategies
The Paychex Small Business Employment Watch found hourly earnings growth for workers at firms with 50 employees or less dropped below 3% for the first time since January 2021.
Collectively, Friday’s figures depict a job market slowing under the pressure of high interest rates but still growing.
UNITE HERE said a total of 15,000 workers have voted to authorize strikes, which could soon spread to other cities.
Billions of dollars of goods each month move between Canada and the U.S. via rail, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The government reported Wednesday that the economy created 818,000 fewer jobs from April 2023 through March 2024, in the biggest revision to federal jobs data in 15 years.
President Shawn Fain accused the company of reneging on promises to restart a now-closed assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, just over an hour northwest of Chicago.
The charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board allege that, during their conversation on X, former President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk illegally threatened and intimidated workers who engage in protected labor activity, such as strikes.
Friday’s report from the Labor Department showed that employers added 35% fewer jobs than forecasters had expected and the unemployment rate hit its highest level since October 2021.
The move comes after nearly two years of negotiations with gaming giants, including divisions of Activision, Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Co., over a new interactive media agreement.
The Labor Department filed a complaint this week in U.S. District Court against the owner of eight Indianapolis-area health care services companies, saying an estimated 700 employees might have been shortchanged by his practices.
Baristas at the 430 Massachusetts Ave. store this week filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.
Fain, a Kokomo native, is under investigation by a court-appointed watchdog who has been working to stamp out corruption at the union in the wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago.
NCAA President Charlie Baker and other college sports leaders contend the vast majority of the 1,100 NCAA member schools could not afford to treat their athletes as employees and would sponsor fewer teams if athletes were categorized this way.
Senate Bill 146 calls for lowering the minimum age of a teenager serving alcohol from 19 to 18, so long as the teen has a supervisor over the age of 21.
