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U.S. House hears witnesses opposed to union for college athletes

August 25, 2021 at 4:47 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The debate over whether college athletes have the right to unionize moved to the U.S. Congress on Thursday, with witnesses that included Baylor University President Ken Starr...

Football players are first college athletes to vote on union

August 25, 2021 at 4:15 a.m.

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Football players at Northwestern University on Friday became the first U.S. student athletes to cast ballots in an election to decide whether to unionize. The vote, which...

UAW suddenly retreats from fight at Tennessee VW plant

May 23, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn./DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers, surprising even its supporters, on Monday abruptly withdrew its legal challenge to a union organizing vote that it lost at a Volkswagen...

U.S. Chamber says non-union groups could reshape labor relations

August 25, 2021 at 4:03 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest U.S. business lobbying group is warning the nation's employers that labor relations could be reshaped by non-union labor groups that are backing high-profile efforts to...

Proposed changes to union rules divide U.S. business, labor

August 25, 2021 at 3:53 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. union organizers squared off against powerful business interests on Thursday over whether proposed federal rule changes for union organizing are an overdue procedural update or a...

Northwestern University appeals decision granting football team union vote

August 25, 2021 at 3:26 a.m.

(Reuters) - Northwestern University formally asked a U.S. labor agency on Wednesday to review a decision by one of its regional directors that the school's football players are effectively employees...

Northwestern players score in bid to unionize college football

August 25, 2021 at 3:22 a.m.

(Reuters) - The U.S. government decided on Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University who get scholarship money are effectively school employees and can vote on organizing what could become...

Hearing on UAW vote at Tennessee VW plant vote April 21

December 23, 2018 at 11:01 p.m.

(Reuters) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union will make its case on April 21 that the results of a February election it lost at a Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant...

Hearing on UAW vote at Tennessee VW plant vote April 21

November 4, 2021 at 1:30 a.m.

(Reuters) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union will make its case on April 21 that the results of a February election it lost at a Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant...

Labor’s Perez details Obama’s overtime rules overhaul

November 4, 2021 at 1:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Labor Secretary Tom Perez offered details this week about the Obama administration's push to revise overtime pay regulations, confirming the Labor Department may close a "loophole" in...

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