Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural labor contract.

Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

Republicans will control the White House and both houses of Congress come January.

Attorneys for Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have argued in a federal appeals court that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional.

A federal appeals court says the National Labor Relations Board was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options.

There has been a doubling of petitions by workers to have union representation during President Joe Biden’s administration.

With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen’s union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.

Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago.

The National Labor Relations Board says Chipotle may have violated federal labor law in its treatment of employees at its only unionized store.

The union representing the Dartmouth men’s basketball team has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school because it has refused to negotiate with the players on a collective bargaining agreement.

The United Auto Workers union has filed unfair labor practice charges against Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks.

The United Auto Workers on Friday accused Mercedes of interfering in last week's union election at two Alabama factories.

An administrative law judge has ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law by making certain anti-union comments during media interviews two years ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court has appeared to side with Starbucks in a case that could make it harder for the federal government to seek injunctions when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns.

Workers who help bring Disneyland’s beloved characters to life have filed a petition to form a labor union.

Three former employees of San Antonio’s Boeing Global Services plant at Port San Antonio allege they were terminated for raising safety concerns surrounding their work.

Dartmouth says it will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join earlier this month.

McDonald’s has apologized for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours.

A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule by the National Labor Relations Board that would have made it easier for millions of workers to form unions at big companies.

For those who have led unsuccessful labor movements involving NCAA athletes, the vote by Dartmouth men’s basketball players felt momentous.

Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

The two Dartmouth players working to unionize their basketball team say other athletes have been reaching out to see if they can join the effort.

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has scheduled a March 5 election to determine whether the players will unionize.

A ruling that gives the Dartmouth basketball team the right to unionize has far-reaching implications for all of college sports — from the quaint, academically oriented Ivy League to the big-money football factories like Michigan and Alabama.

A National Labor Relations Board regional official has decided that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes.

A group of federal appeals court judges in New Orleans is mulling whether a 2018 social media post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk unlawfully threatened Tesla employees with the loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union.

Unions commanded big headlines last year, but that didn’t translate into higher membership numbers, according to government data released Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Starbucks in a dispute with the National Labor Relations Board over workers who were trying to unionize a store in Memphis, Tennessee.

A U.S. labor agency has accused SpaceX of unlawfully firing employees who penned an open letter critical of CEO Elon Musk and creating an impression that worker activities were under surveillance by the rocket ship company.

Dockworkers and the Republican governor in South Carolina are digging in their heels over a labor dispute that has left the newest container terminal at the East Coast’s deepest harbor largely inactive.

Dancers at a Los Angeles bar could soon become the only unionized group of strippers in the U.S. The Actors’ Equity Association labor union says that owners of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have withdrawn their opposition and agreed to recognize the strippers’ union.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a 2018 Twitter post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk unlawfully threatened Tesla employees with the loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union.

The National Labor Relations Board has recognized Say Si, an after-school art program, as a union and it’s ready to begin working with board members.

The federal labor board has decided that fewer than 100 employees out of thousands at Nissan’s auto assembly plant in Tennessee can hold a vote on whether to form a small union.

A Trader Joe’s store in Louisville, Kentucky, has voted to unionize.

The U.S. union membership rate reached an all-time low last year.

A federal judge has ordered Amazon to stop retaliating against employees engaged in workplace activism.

Home Depot workers in Philadelphia voted against forming the first store-wide labor union at the world’s largest home improvement retailer Saturday night, a loss for a fledgling movement to organize at major U.S. companies.

Home Depot workers in Philadelphia have filed a petition with the federal labor board to form what could be the first store-wide union at the world’s largest home improvement retailer.

The National Labor Relations Board has found that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from wearing clothing with union insignia while on the job.

The National Labor Relations Board says Starbucks is violating U.S. labor law by withholding pay hikes and other benefits from stores that have voted to unionize.

A federal judge is ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven employees in Memphis, Tennessee, who were fired earlier this year after leading an effort to unionize their store.

Amazon workers in upstate New York filed a petition for a union election on Tuesday, launching a major labor fight against the company.

Starbucks is asking the National Labor Relations Board to suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores.

The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a charge Starbucks filed against union organizers in Phoenix.

Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.

The National Labor Relations Board is asking a federal court to order Starbucks to stop interfering with unionization efforts at its U.S. stores.

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.

A federal labor board has denied Amazon's request to bar the public from a hearing on the company’s bid to overturn a historic union win at one of its Staten Island, New York, warehouses.

The National Labor Relations Board has found merit to a complaint that Amazon violated labor law in New York City’s Staten Island by holding mandatory worker meetings to persuade its employees not to unionize.

Amazon workers at a warehouse on New York City's Staten Island have overwhelmingly rejected a union bid.

In the aftermath of their hard-won labor victory, Amazon workers in the New York City borough of Staten Island popped Champagne, cheered their victory and danced in celebration.

A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19.

Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses.

Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.

Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.

A federal labor board wants to reinstate an Amazon employee who was fired from his New York City warehouse job after leading a protest in the early days of the pandemic calling for better COVID-19 protections.

Employees at three more Starbucks stores in suburban Buffalo have voted to form unions.

A federal labor board said that Amazon workers in a facility in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail next month in a re-run election to decide whether or not to unionize.

A new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama will be held based on objections to the first vote that took place in April.

The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that a group of Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York has withdrawn its petition to hold a vote to unionize.

Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, will hold union elections next month after winning a case before the National Labor Relations Board.

The National Labor Relations Board says there's sufficient interest to form a union at an Amazon distribution center in New York City.

A recommendation to nullify the election results of an Amazon union vote in Bessemer, Alabama is breathing new life into the labor movement.

The union that tried, and failed, to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama may get a do-over.

Volvo Trucks North America says some striking workers have crossed picket lines at a southwestern Virginia factory as the company plans to restart production.

Federal regulators have denied a union push to try to organize fewer than 100 employees at the Nissan assembly plant in Tennessee.

Amazon workers voted against forming a union at a warehouse in Alabama, The win proved the might of the online shopping giant and cut off a path that labor activists had hoped would lead to similar efforts throughout the company and beyond.

Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted on whether or not to form a union.

The National Labor Relations Board has found that two outspoken Amazon workers were illegally fired last year.