Labor

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors and performers, is on strike against major studios after negotiations broke down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

This year's theme is 'Finding True Life Through Service to Others.' The march kicks off at 10 a.m. at Guadalupe and Brazos streets and ends two miles away at Hemisfair.

The first mass labor protest by Mexican Americans took place in San Antonio in 1938 and met with harsh resistance from the city’s political establishment. A workforce of mostly Mexican American women picketed for five weeks to seek a living wage and basic workplace protections.

Members from the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, and numerous other union-affiliated figures came out to support the Starbucks workers. District 2 and District 5 council members Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Teri Castillo also attended the event.

The plaza, sitting across from the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on Market Street, celebrates eight prominent San Antonio labor figures and replaces a deteriorating statue of American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers, who died in San Antonio.

Freight rail workers had threatened to strike Friday. The unions were unhappy about a policy that penalizes workers who take unscheduled time off, including for medical needs.

President Joe Biden said Thursday a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.

Union support is the highest it's been in decades in the U.S. We clear up a few questions about how they work in Texas.

Several unions have formed since the start of 2022, including at an Austin Starbucks, and could be signs of a growing national trend.

As symphony management and symphony musicians lodge complaints against one another with the National Labor Relations Board the gulf between the two symphony groups is widening.