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A federal labor official who presided over Amazon's challenge to a union victory at a Staten Island warehouse has recommended dismissing the challenge, the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday.The Labor Committee official, known as…

One of the biggest economic winners from the pandemic is Amazon, which almost doubled its annual profit last year to $ 21 billion and will far exceed that figure this year.Profits came from the millions of Americans who appreciate the…

People line up to test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a mobile test car on August 27, 2021 in New York City.Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe US goes into Labor Day weekend with just over four times as many Covid-19 cases and more than…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesCDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky advised unvaccinated people against traveling over the upcoming Labor Day weekend as the…

To commission or not to commission?That's the question restaurant owners and operators face in one of the toughest hiring environments in decades. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine,…

Perhaps the most prominent voice in this discussion is the more than one million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which passed a resolution at its June Congress obliging the union to “provide all the resources necessary” to…

Customers order at a chipotle restaurant in the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.Mark Makela | ReutersAs the job market warms, Chipotle Mexican Grill announced Monday that wages for restaurant workers will rise,…

At the Amazon facility, people hold a banner while members of a congressional delegation in Bessemer, Alabama, U.S., show their support for workers who will vote on union formation on March 5, 2021.Dustin Chambers | ReutersThe National…

President Biden signed an executive order on Monday creating a White House Task Force to Promote Work Organization to harness the power of the federal government to reverse a decade-long decline in union membership.The task force, led by…

"Everywhere they tried, they were defeated," said Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California at Santa Barbara, of the unions. “Walmart would send teams to flood the stores and work against a union. You are good…