Congress is moving urgently to head off the looming U.S. rail strike. The bill would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement reached in September that failed to gain the support of all 12 unions involved.

By Kevin Freking, Josh Funk, Associated Press

Workers at a New York City Amazon site on Monday appeared to reject a union. That loss came just weeks after they’d scored a historic win at a much larger, neighboring Amazon warehouse, which created the first-ever union at the…

By William Brangham, Dorothy Hastings, Eliot Barnhart