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What Would Paying Student Athletes Look Like?
A college team’s vote to unionize adds pressure on the N.C.A.A. to abandon rules that forbid paying student athletes like…
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World
About 600 Workers Unionize at Microsoft-Owned Activision
The group will become the largest union at a video game company in the United States, while Microsoft pledged to…
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Business
Labor Unions End Starbucks Board Fight
The decision to pull a slate of board nominees comes after the company agreed to meet workers at the bargaining…
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Business
Starbucks and Union Agree to Work Out Framework for Contract Talks
In an initial move, the coffeehouse chain said Workers United members would get improved benefits that other employees received in…
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Business
Can a Tech Giant Be Woke?
The December day in 2021 that set off a revolution across the videogame industry appeared to start innocuously enough. Managers…
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World
‘October Rain,’ Israel’s Proposed Eurovision Entry, Causes a Storm
A song called “October Rain” might simply be a ballad about dreary fall weather. But in the charged atmosphere following…
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A Union Leader in Nebraska Tries to Leap to the Senate on Labor’s Strength
Dan Osborn led a strike in 2021 against the Kellogg’s plant in Omaha. Now he is challenging Senator Deb Fischer…
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News
The Politics of Betrayal Are at Work in Michigan
Betrayal is a powerful emotion, especially at the ballot box. Voters who feel betrayed tend to act like spurned lovers,…
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Business
Supreme Court to Hear Starbucks Bid to Overturn Labor Ruling
The coffee chain has challenged a federal judge’s order to reinstate a group of union activists who were fired at…
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Business
American Unions Long Backed Israel. Now, Some Are Protesting It.
The shift reflects a broader generational change, and has exposed philosophical rifts in the labor movement about what the purpose…
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