The Teamsters, which represents 1.4 million workers nationwide, introduced a resolution making organizing Amazon workers across the country a top priority. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Workers at Amazon's facility in Bessemer, Ala., held a historic vote on whether to form the company's first warehouse union. Bill Barrow/AP hide caption
It's A No: Amazon Warehouse Workers Vote Against Unionizing In Historic Election
Vote tally is underway in a historic union election at Amazon's warehouse in Alabama. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
A banner encourages workers to vote in a union election at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
A vote tally begins in a union election at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., pictured here on Feb. 6. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island in New York City and across the U.S. have not been unionized. That could change in Alabama. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Nurses at Albany Medical Center picketed on Dec.1, asking for more personal protective equipment. They say they're having to reuse N95 masks up to 20 times. Hans Pennink hide caption
A worker pulls a pallet jack with plastic crates at an Amazon warehouse in Robbinsville, N.J. The company is facing its biggest labor battle yet with a unionization vote expected at a facility in Alabama. Bess Adler/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Some workers at Amazon warehouses such as this one in the Staten Island borough of New York City have been trying to organize, facing stiff opposition from the company. Amazon workers in Alabama have now petitioned to form a union. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tekiah Elzey is using Coworker.org to petition for hazard pay to be restored at the New Seasons Market where she works in Portland, Ore. Chloe Meeske hide caption
Power Of The Petition: Nonprofit Helps Front-Line Workers Fight For Their Rights
American Airlines ticket agent Henry Gemdron, left, works with a customer at Miami International Airport on Sept. 30. Travel industry groups warn of huge job losses if Congress and the White House fail to reach agreement on coronavirus relief soon. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
The increase in cases comes after companies such as Kroger ended extra "hero pay" for their workers. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James P. Hoffa is seen in the East Room of the White House in 2015. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Garrett Ward sprays disinfectant behind a plexiglass panel at a Hy-Vee grocery store in Overland Park, Kan., on March 26. Stores have begun installing the shields in checkout aisles to protect clerks and help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
Grocery Workers Keep America Fed, While Fearing For Their Own Safety
Over the last four decades, incomes in the United States have grown much less equal. Inequality is less pronounced in Western Europe. Mike Segar/Reuters hide caption
Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit on Feb. 26, 2019. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption
United Auto Workers members picket Wednesday at a General Motors plant in Flint, Mich. Last year, more U.S. workers went on strike than at any time since 1986. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images hide caption
'It's Time To Get Something Back': Union Workers' Voices Are Getting Louder
Tribune Publishing has agreed to recognize a new union representing journalists at the Hartford Courant in Connecticut's capital. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption
Journalists at Connecticut's Hartford Courant newspaper, which is owned by Tribune Publishing, are petitioning to unionize. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption
Educators from Hollenbeck Middle School in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles chant, "Teachers united will never be defeated!" in front of their school. Roxanne Turpen for NPR hide caption
The logo of Tronc Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing Company, is seen at TechFair LA in 2017. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters hide caption
Cashiers, cooks, delivery people, fast-food workers and their supporters rallied outside New York City Hall in 2017. Their influential union, the Service Employees International Union, also includes about half a million home health aides. Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images hide caption
The Supreme Court term that just concluded was a small taste of what is to come. In all, 13 of the cases decided by a liberal-conservative split, Justice Anthony Kennedy provided the fifth and deciding conservative vote. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
According to labor organizers, Tronc has agreed to recognize three separate bargaining units within the same union at its Chicago-area publications, including the Chicago Tribune. Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Organizers of a newsroom union at the Chicago Tribune have given the Tribune's parent company, Tronc, a day to voluntarily recognize the guild and start to negotiate a contract. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption