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.

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.

The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) were back at the bargaining table Tuesday to negotiate a contract agreement.