Unions

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Critic Emily Nussbaum explores the costs and radio roots of reality TV in her latest book, "Cue the Sun!"

The UC system argues that the strikes violated the union contract's "no strike" provision. But workers may have the right to violate no strike agreements in certain cases.

Starting Monday, around 5,200 workers at a Mercedes-Benz assembly-and-battery complex near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will begin voting on whether to join the UAW.

The United Auto Workers are getting pushback from Southern Republicans, but gains in Detroit are driving interest in Alabama and elsewhere.

A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Dartmouth's men's basketball players are employees who can form a union.

Unions are more visible and vocal than they've been in decades. If the labor market remains tight, they'll have negotiating leverage.

Union members from the auto industry to Hollywood actors are currently taking the votes. They are more than a rubber-stamping process.

California is one of 11 states that allows in-home child care providers to bargain collectively. This year, the union that represents 40,000 of these workers in that state won big in their fight for better pay and benefits. 

Petitioning for union representation is just the first step in forming a union, and not all efforts make it to the finish line.