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Dan Back, a United Auto Workers Local 12 member, pickets during the ongoing UAW strike at the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, in Toledo, Ohio. Members of the United Auto Workers union moved closer to approving a contract agreement with Stellantis on Friday, Nov. 17, as two large factories in Detroit voted overwhelmingly for the deal. (Kurt Steiss/The Blade via AP) **FILE**

It’s over: UAW workers ratify new contracts with major carmakers

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The bulldog hood ornament is seen on a used Mack truck that is available at a lot in Evans City, Pa., Jan. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Mack Trucks workers approve tentative labor contract

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Thousands of U.S. Starbucks workers plan to walk off the job Thursday -- one of the chain's busiest days of the year -- to protest the company's anti-union stance. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

NYC Starbucks workers file labor complaints as hundreds of stores join strike

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

United Auto Workers members hold picket signs near a General Motors assembly plant in Delta Township, Mich., Sept. 29, 2023. About 46,000 United Auto Workers at GM are expected to wrap up voting on a tentative contract agreement in a close race that will decide the fate of the deal that ended a six-week strike. The union is expected to announce GM results Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) **FILE**

UAW GM workers near ratification after Texas plant approves contract

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Stellantis announces buyouts for thousands of employees

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

ACCESS Act funds personal health care options to low-income Americans illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

ACCESS Act would give personal health care options to low-income Americans

By Skylar Zander

United Auto Workers members walk in the Labor Day parade in Detroit, Sept. 2, 2019. More than 1,500 employees at Mercedes-Benz's Tuscaloosa, Alabama, plant have signed union cards with the United Auto Workers, the largest step yet in the union's effort to organize nonunion auto shops. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

More braking: Tennessee GM workers reject union deal

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla vehicles line a parking lot at the company's Fremont, Calif., factory, on Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) **FILE**

Tesla can ban union shirts from its factory, judge rules

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

New York Governor Kathy Hochul addresses the media during a press conference Monday, March. 13, 2023, in New York. About 1 in 5 American workers, including retail and construction workers, are bound by noncompete agreements, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Hochul hasn't said whether she intends to sign state legislation passed last June that would ban noncompete agreements. The legislation has come under a fierce attack by business groups. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File )

Business lobby attacks as New York nears a noncompete ban, rare in the U.S.

By Maysoon Khan - Associated Press

Hyundai hikes wages for factory workers after UAW deal

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Unionized Starbucks workers plan to walk out this week

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

United Auto Workers signs for a strike are shown at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, in Sterling Heights, Mich., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Jeep maker Stellantis has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that follows a template set earlier this week by Ford, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

UAW members at Ford’s Louisville plant give thumbs-down to contract

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

People walk along a pedestrian bridge near the Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Las Vegas. After a marathon week of negotiations, the Las Vegas hotel workers union says it has reached a tentative deal with Wynn Resorts. It was the last contract the Culinary Workers Union needed to avoid a strike on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, and came after the union's tentative deals with Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Wynn joins Caesars and MGM in reaching tentative deal to avoid a strike by Las Vegas hotel workers

By Rio Yamat - Associated Press

SAG-AFTRA captain Mary M. Flynn rallies fellow striking actors on a picket line outside Netflix studios, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

From Hollywood to auto work, organized labor is flexing its muscles. Where do unions stand today?

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the Amtrak Bear Maintenance Facility, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Bear, Del. Biden on Thursday is heading to Belvidere, Ill., to celebrate an auto plant that has reopened as part of the resolution of a targeted strike by the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Biden celebrates a labor deal saving an Illinois auto plant as he promotes a worker-centered economy

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu attends a campaign event, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Rye, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

National institute will build on New Hampshire’s recovery-friendly workplace program

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

President Joe Biden puts on a UAW Local 1268 shirt before speaking to United Auto Workers at the Community Building Complex of Boone County, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Ill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden seeks UAW endorsement during visit to Illinois EV-battery plant

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers Selene Lockerbie, left, and her husband Colin Lockerbie dance to celebrate the end of a three day strike outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages entered its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Kaiser Permanente workers ratify contract after strike over wages and staffing levels

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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain talks with members picketing near a General Motors Assembly Plant in Delta Township, Mich., on Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) ** FILE **

UAW’s Shawn Fain looks for next big win in organizing non-union automakers

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

United Auto Workers members picket at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. New union agreements with Detroit automakers reached during the past week will cost Ford, Stellantis and General Motors over $1 billion per year by the time they take effect in four years. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) **FILE**

General Motors workers in Michigan reject United Auto Workers’ deal

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times