Some companies argue that unions mobilize workers around certain issues or candidates — but union leaders are often democratically elected.

Workers were watching as strikers won concessions from Hollywood studios and Detroit automakers.

They provide essential services like emergency rescue and avalanche prevention, but they often can’t afford to live near where they work.

Nashville’s Yellow Freight — one of the only union shops in trucking — shut down operations in August, leaving 30,000 people without work.

The union is making a bet that inconvenienced drivers will side with them – which would put pressure on the Big Three car companies to make a deal.

Solid Inventory is keeping some worries away for now. But a prolonged strike could hurt the industry, one expert says.

The United Auto Workers may focus its actions on specific plants, instead of organizing a broad work stoppage, if contract negotiations fail.

It may be a strategy to cope with the electric vehicle transition.

The company posts a revenue dip and says the pay levels in the new labor agreement with the Teamsters are higher than it had planned.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of workers who went on strike increased almost 50% last year, compared to 2021.