The Latest Breaking News from National Labor Relations Board

Employees are seeking to unionize at a Trader Joe’s grocery store in western Massachusetts

WASHINGTON — Amid a surge in labor organizing across the country, the U.S. House late Tuesday approved a resolution by Michigan Rep. Andy Levin that would recognize congressional staffers' right to organize and bargain collectively.

Starbucks workers have driven a surge in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board. Unionizing has also picked up at colleges, non-profits and pot dispensaries.

The vote to join an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union was 17-4 in a count supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.

On April 7, Madison Hall, a barista and union organizer at the Starbucks store on Long Beach's bustling 2nd Street commercial strip, was invited to a session the next day to "meet with and co-create with upper-level management," Hall says.

The company and staffing agency Aston Carter was cited in the NLBR complaint.

Since the first successful drive in Buffalo, 18 US locations have unionized – including at the chichi New York ‘reserve’

The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board is asking the board to rule that mandatory meetings held by some companies to persuade their workers to reject unions is a violation of federal labor law

Morgan Stanley analysts saw Amazon.com Inc's (NASDAQ:AMZN) unionization decision driving costs, CNBC reports. Morgan Stanley analysts saw Amazon's 2023 operating expenses increasing by $203 million on hiking JFK8 employees' hourly wages to $29. It served a tiny fraction of Amazon's annual operating costs, which reached $445 billion in 2021. Every 1% of Amazon's front-line…