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After successful unionization drives, experts say companies will ‘fight to the end’ to prevent the next step

Workers at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland, won national attention and praise from President Joe Biden after becoming the first of the tech giant’s U.S. employees to unionize. Less than two months earlier, Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood became the first of the coffee chain’s Maryland employees…

U.S. labor board prosecutors plan to accuse Amazon.com Inc. of threatening staff that if they unionized it could propose paying them minimum wage and of punishing an employee for seeking a paid Juneteenth holiday.

Automakers are scrambling as lithium battery and rare earth shortages may wreck the great EV race. There's no quick fix.

Other big companies fear they'll be next.