Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now they’re helping to unionize them.

The workers had been seeking to unionize a store in Memphis.

Experts said the comments raised questions about whether the company was seeking to discriminate against unionized employees.

Workers at six more stores in upstate New York have voted to unionize, bringing the number nationwide to 16 since December.

The meetings are a common response by companies like Amazon and Starbucks to union drives among workers. The full labor board will make the decision.

The success of an independent drive has organized labor asking whether it should take more of a back seat.

The vote was much closer than another unionization vote taken at the facility last year.

The company has held hundreds of meetings with workers to discourage them from supporting a union in two upcoming elections.

Some see an undue rush by employers to get workplaces back to normal, whether by dropping precautions or imposing new rules.

A symbol long used by union members to draw attention to suspect labor practices survives a legal challenge.