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Why a mailbox continues to loom over Amazon union vote at Alabama warehouse

The mailbox was a key reason why labor officials ruled to re-do a union election at Amazon's Alabama warehouse. For the re-vote, the mailbox got moved. The union wants it gone.

Automation has become a hot-button issue at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The shipping industry is pushing for more automation of the work loading and unloading ships. But dockworkers warn robots will only kill American jobs.

Before the holiday season, workers at America's busiest ports are fighting the robots

As the shipping industry pushes for more automation at West Coast ports, the powerful union representing dockworkers is fighting back, saying robots will only kill good American jobs.

James "Spinner" Spinosa followed his uncles to the Los Angeles waterfront in 1969. He served in various leadership positions in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, including as international president.

Retired labor leader says his former union must think outside the box to save jobs

James Spinosa led the West Coast dockworkers union through tumultuous shifts to new technologies over decades. With the shipping industry now pushing for more automation, he reflects on what's ahead.

2020 Was The Year Of Dancing By Ourselves

As dance floors stood empty, a wide spectrum of dance music transformed bedrooms into clubs, kitchens into discotheques and backyards into glow-stick raves.

Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons workers ask customers to support them if a strike were to happen, August 27, 2019.

Local labor leader sees new energy in union organizing

While support for labor unions is increasing, overall membership is down.

Organizer Chris Smalls speaks after his Amazon Labor Union won a vote to form the company's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., in April.

Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing — what else are American workers up to?

How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.

Workers line up to vote on unionization at Amazon's warehouse in Staten Island on March 25.

Amazon loses key step in its attempt to reverse its workers' historic union vote

A federal labor official is recommending a dismissal of Amazon's objections after a lengthy hearing on the company's appeal against the historic union win at a warehouse in New York's Staten Island.

This photo taken from video shows a view of a destroyed barrack at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, on July 29. Ukrainian officials say they are struggling to establish the truth surrounding the explosion in a prison that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured by the Russians following the fall of Mariupol.

After a deadly jail blast, Ukrainians want answers about war prisoners held by Russia

The families of Ukrainian soldiers imprisoned by Russian forces have embarked on a desperate search for information after a deadly explosion at the Olenivka prison.

Dr. Aleksandra Shchebet is a Ukrainian neurologist whose professional and personal life were upended when the war with Russia began. After fleeing Kyiv, Dr. Shchebet found another way to help; sorting, packing and loading food and medical supplies onto trucks for delivery elsewhere into the country. She's now returned to Kyiv and sees patients affected by the war.

Whatever happened to the caring Ukrainian neurologist who didn't let war stop her

Dr. Aleksandra Shchebet fled Kyiv but resolved to help any way she could, from virtual visits to packing medical supplies. Now she's back home, tending to patients who are deeply affected by the war.

Family members and friends march seeking justice for the missing 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City on Friday.

6 of the 43 missing Mexican students were turned over to the army, official says

Six of the 43 college students "disappeared" in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days and then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, an official said.

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