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Detroit Three autoworkers who were on strike or laid off as a result of the United Auto Workers' work stoppage are starting to return to work after tentative agreements were reached between the union and all three automakers. Ford Motor Co. said in an update Monday night that all of its workers who had been on strike had returned to work and that it was in the process of calling back to work thousands who had been laid off at other plants. Ford last week became the first of the Detroit automakers to reach a tentative agreement on a new four-and-a-half-year contract with the UAW; Stellantis NV ......

Standing outside Amazon's Seattle headquarters in May, Pamela Hayter told her colleagues she wasn't nervous. "We're here today because it's the right thing to do," the eight-year Amazon veteran said to a group of employees who had participated in a walkout in hopes of getting the company to reconsider a recently issued return-to-office mandate. Hayter was one of the only then-current Amazon employees to take the microphone at the May event. Weeks before, she had created a Slack channel, titled #remote-advocacy, which became the meeting ground for workers to share concerns about RTO, draft a pe......

The United Auto Workers has reached a tentative agreement with General Motors Co., its third deal struck with the Detroit Three automakers within a week, according to sources familiar with the situation. GM declined to comment. The GM deal is expected to follow the pattern set at Ford Motor Co. that was announced on Wednesday. That four-and-a-half-year deal features a 26% compounded wage increase, reinstated cost-of-living adjustments, a three-year timeline to the top wage and increased contributions to retiree pensions and current workers' pensions and 401(k)s. The deal at Ford resulted in mo......

Sean Kilkenny wasn’t expecting to be involved in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race last year. The Montgomery County sheriff had backed one of John Fetterman’s rivals in the primary and — like many elected Democrats — didn’t have much of a relationship with the state’s larger-than-life lieutenant governor, who fashioned himself an anti-politician. But as Fetterman’s lead in the polls over Republican Mehmet Oz slipped amid an onslaught of ads attacking him as being soft on crime, the Democrat’s aides reached out to Kilkenny with an urgent message: The campaign needed someone with a law enforcement......

She’s worked at high levels in almost every place where Democrats are strong: a former top California labor official, president of an influential women’s political organization and adviser to Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and other party luminaries. Laphonza Butler was sworn in Tuesday as the Senate’s only Black woman and just the third in its history, following Harris (2017-21), now vice president, and Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, (1993-99) the Illinois Democrat. “Butler ... isn’t all that well-known to the broader public but is someone who is deeply involved in Democratic politics/governance,”......

TOLEDO, Ohio — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Saturday warned autoworkers on strike not to let messaging from the Detroit Three automakers give up their fight for "justice." "They're trying to cause doubt between the membership and the leadership," Fain told picketers at Stellantis NV's Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator plant in Toledo on their 16th day of being on strike. "They're trying to cause division. This is how they operate. This is how people in power operate. We try to divide everybody so they can get done what they want to get done. What they're saying is complete bull----, a......