Footage of a Woolworths robot appearing to collect a long row of supermarket trolleys and returning them to the bay in a store car park has left Aussies questioning if the technology will replace staff.

More than 2,000 workers across Tony's 21 stores in Chicago and the suburbs have until Thursday to decide if they want to join Local 881 United Food and Commercial Workers.

The United States Department of Agriculture announced new waivers recently to increase line speeds in poultry and pork plants. Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and

Over the next three days, 2,400 cashiers, deli clerks, meat cutters, bakery workers, pastry decorators, florists and other grocery store staffers will decide whether Tony’s Fresh Market, the grocery chain founded by Italian immigrants in Logan Square and sold to private equity three years ago, will become a union shop.

The National Treasury Employees union filed suit against the Trump administration in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, over the White House order eliminating collective bargaining rights for two-thirds of the federal workforce.

Trump should use executive power where he can to curtail collective bargaining in the public service, but the solution must ultimately come from Congress.