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The union movement is picking up steam in coffee shops across the country. Three cafes in Somerville just become some of the first in Massachusetts to approve union contracts, and they hope it becomes a blueprint for the rest of the industry. Employees at Diesel Café, Bloc Café and Forge Baking Company voted on a contract that includes a 95-cent…

Three Somerville coffee shops are among the first in Massachusetts to approve union contracts.

Over 100 employees rallied outside of Sysco Boston headquarters in Plympton, Massachusetts, Saturday morning as they began a strike.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was in Massachusetts this weekend for a workers’ rights rally. Sanders’ event, called “The Working Class: Fighting Back Against Corporate Greed,” occurred at Cambridge Common Park at 1 p.m. Sunday and was held in partnership with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America. “The rallies come at a time…

More workers across Massachusetts are fighting to unionize, whether they work at a coffee shop, a grocery store or the State House.

Employees at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Massachusetts on Thursday became the latest workers at a major company to approve a labor union. The store in Hadley, about 80 miles west of Boston, is the first Trader Joe’s with an employees union, although workers at two other company locations have initiated unionization efforts. The union vote passed 45-31. Organizers...

Employees at the Apple store at Towson Town Center in Maryland voted Saturday to organize the company’s first U.S. union.

The young Maine man who died when a hole he was digging on a Jersey Shore beach collapsed is being remembered in his home state. According to officials in Toms River, New Jersey, 18-year-old Levi Caverly of Union, Maine, was killed when a hole dug with frisbees collapsed on both him and his 17-year-old sister. She was able to be…

Federal labor officials say Starbucks engaged in unfair labor practices in Phoenix, Arizona by firing employees as retaliation for seeking to unionize

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Monday that he’s ready to step up to the plate and help end Major League Baseball’s two-month old lockout. Walsh, the former Boston mayor and longtime Red Sox fan, said he had spoken with representatives of the owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association about the ongoing negotiations and that he encouraged...

A Biden administration task force has issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionize.

Starbucks workers at cafes on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston and Harvard Street in Brookline are looking to unionize after a store in Buffalo, New York, successfully unionized last week, a first for the 50-year-old coffee retailer in the U.S.

Employees at two Boston-area Starbucks locations filed paperwork to unionize Monday, just days after employees of the chain in New York state became the first in the country to form one of their own.

Employees at two Boston-area Starbucks locations filed paperwork to unionize Monday, just days after employees of the chain in New York state became the first in the country to form one of their own. Organizers are hoping the call to unionize in the Boston-area will encourage all local Starbucks employees to join the movement, which they said will improve workers’…