Browsing: Unions

Joined by state and city officials, local unions closed off Boylston Street for more than an hour in the middle of the lunch-time rush on Monday, to protest construction efforts at 581 Boylston Street, or the Wesleyan Building.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the city’s two largest non-military unions signed a four-year deal on Thursday that deliberately gives larger raises to the lowest-paid city workers.

A majority of adults in the United States said the decline in union membership is bad for the country, according to a survey conducted earlier this year.  The Pew Research Center survey found that 54 percent of U.S. adults believe the decline in union membership is bad for the country. Another 59 percent said that the decline…

A judge in Texas has stopped a new rule from the National Labor Relations Board that would have made it simpler for many workers to create unions at large corporations.