A union representing workers at Boeing Co.’s St. Louis-area defense factories urged US lawmakers from Missouri to intervene and nudge the planemaker to reach a deal.

Some parents say they're concerned ahead of the new school year as the threat of a possible strike between the School District of Philadelphia and the local teachers' union looms.

Striking workers are demanding livable wages, safe work conditions, guaranteed break times and measures to prevent ICE agents from entering the workplace without a judicial warrant.

Union members narrowly voted to approve a contract for Pickerington Schools bus drivers the day before school starts.

Union leaders wrote that they intend to reject the board's offer, triggering a federally mandated 30-day "cooling off" period.

As some students in southwest suburban Naperville headed back to school Thursday, teachers in the Naperville Unit District 203 went back to the classroom without a contract. The

Service Employees International Union members had just, earlier in August, voted overwhelmingly (84%) to authorize an open-ended Unfair Labor Practice strike following a four-day ULP strike earlier in July.

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers has already authorized a strike if it cannot reach a new contract with the School District of Philadelphia by Aug. 31 — the date the current contract expires, just a few days into the 2025-26 school year.