Unions

If successful, the union vote would form the first unionized Amazon facility in North Carolina and just the second in the United States.

Blair LM Kelley, author of "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class," explains how washerwomen across the South, and Pullman porters across the country, wielded the power of community to gain better working conditions for all.

The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. Organizers hope they can continue a push into the rest of the south, including North Carolina and South Carolina, which have very low union participation rates.

Unlike in many states, North Carolina public school teachers can not collectively bargain contracts. Nor can they legally strike. The situation has broad effects for public school employees.

Sanitation workers in Durham who demanded pay raises, bonuses and permanent work last week have ended their strike to "keep their commitment to the community."

This week, graduate students enrolled in PhD programs at Duke University will receive ballots in the mail to vote on whether to form a labor union. If more students vote for the union than against, they’ll become the first recognized graduate student union in the South.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Duke University graduate students can hold a union vote later this month, rejecting a challenge from the university.

WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Colin Campbell spoke with Ardis Watkins, the executive director of SEANC, about the decision to make the split.

He found his calling in a liberal college town, but no university degrees were needed for the fights Phil Cohen would go on to pick with union busters.…

It hasn’t been an easy sell for Charles French to convince his fellow colleagues in the Greensboro Sanitation Department to join the city’s first union.“A…