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A line of people holding signs mounted on posts stands on a sidewalk waving at passing cars. Their backs are to the camera. The signs say “On Strike / En Huelga”.

Mass deportations could leave a hole in the West’s service and agriculture economies

Yvette Fernandez

Immigrants without legal status make up a large part of the workers in several industries and have a combined household income of almost $27 billion in the Mountain West.

Park City Ski Resort lines and lifts were shut down due to the strike by the Park City Ski Patrol requesting livable wages in Park City, Jan 7. 2025.

Sports & Recreation

Park City Mountain ski patrollers return to work claiming victory

Associated Press

The union representing Park City Mountain Resort ski patrollers is claiming victory after voting Wednesday to accept a deal negotiated with Vail Resorts, the Colorado-based owner.

Park City Mountain ski patrollers on the picket line New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2025, in Park City, Utah.

Sports & Recreation

What to know about the ski patroller strike roiling Park City Mountain

Associated Press

More than 200 union ski patrollers at Park City Mountain Resort went on strike on Dec. 27. They're seeking a base-pay increase from $21 to $23 an hour. They have accused the owner Vail Resorts of unfair bargaining.

The Salt Lake Tribune became the first legacy newsroom in the country to become a nonprofit organization in 2019. On July 15, a supermajority of newsroom staff informed management of their intent to form the Salt Lake News Guild, the first union in the paper’s 154-year history.

Business & Economy

Salt Lake Tribune journalists move to unionize

Sean Higgins

The Salt Lake News Guild would be the first union in the 154-year history of the newspaper.

Republican Rep. Jordan Teuscher speaking on behalf of HB 285 at the House Business and Labor Committee, Jan. 26, 2024.

Politics & Government

Bill requiring Utah public employee unions to recertify every 5 years is on the table

Tilda Wilson

Public union members say they feel unfairly targeted by the bill.

This undated photo from the Utah State Historical Society shows a miner working on a coal loader in an Aberdeen Coal Co. mine in Carbon County, Utah. The county used to have a stronger Democratic Party presence due to the alignment between the party and unionized mine workers.

Politics & Government

Carbon County was once a Democratic stronghold. Now the party hopes for a comeback

Tilda Wilson

Carbon County Democrats are running candidates in nearly every race this year.

Employees at the Starbucks in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, pictured here on July 31, 2023, voted to join the Starbucks Workers United union last June.

Business & Economy

After unionizing last summer, some Utah Starbucks workers now want out

Sean Higgins

Several employees at a Cottonwood Heights Starbucks have filed a formal petition to decertify the store’s union with the National Labor Relations Board.

Salt Lake City Public Library employees gather outside the main library downtown to announce their intent to unionize to the Library Board of Directors, April 24, 2023.

Politics & Government

Salt Lake City Public Library employees want to unionize

Saige Miller

If successful, Salt Lake City Public Library Workers United would be the first library workers union in Utah.

Local and national members of the American Federation of Government Employees labor union gather outside the Utah Department of Veteran and Military Affairs medical center in Salt Lake City, March 27, 2023. They’re picketing for a nationwide VA employee pay raise.

Politics & Government

VA employees, nationally and in Utah, are asking Congress for a wage bump

Saige Miller

A morning snow flurry in Salt Lake City didn’t stop members of the American Federation of Government Employees labor union from rallying at the medical center for better pay.