union organizing

Massachusetts drivers for app-based services like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are pushing to unionize, and they are calling on state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow the drivers to form or join unions.

Starbucks workers declared a strike victory Wednesday after 64 days of around-the-clock picketing at their Boston store, the longest strike of its kind in the country.

Before taking the stage at a rally for worker’s rights in Cambridge Sunday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders popped over to Starbucks with a megaphone and a Teamsters hat. At a unionized Starbucks location in Boston, Sanders joined a picket line that has gained national attention as the longest-running strike of its kind in the nation.