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The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. [1]
In May 2024, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a bill, known as Senate Bill 231, that bars companies in the state from receiving state-level economic incentives, including grants, loans, and tax credits, if companies voluntarily recognize a workers' union, rather than requiring workers to vote on whether to unionize.
A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly helped the companies where workers are unionized by a 48–44 margin. A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly helped state and local governments by a 47–45 margin. A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly hurt the US economy in general by a 49–45 margin.
Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to ...
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
One of the first high tech companies to establish a union was Kickstarter, whose employees voted in favor of unionizing in February 2020. [217] On April 1, 2022, Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York City voted in favor of a union, becoming Amazon's first unionized workplace in the United States. [218]
An estimated 85% of workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama warehouse are Black. The unionization vote is taking place now. Black Lives Matter helped inspire Amazon workers' push to unionize in ...
MORE: Amazon workers authorize strike at company's first-ever unionized warehouse. In a news release, the union calls it the "largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" and says it comes after ...