Ben Finley

Associated Press

In this June 18, 2021 file photo, UAW Members strike outside the Volvo Trucks North America plant in Dublin, Va. With Help Wanted signs at factories and businesses spreading across the nation, in manufacturing and in service industries, union workers like those at the Volvo site are seizing the opportunity to try to recover some of the bargaining power — and financial security — they feel they lost in recent decades as unions shrank in size and influence.

Labor Shortage Leaves Union Workers Feeling More Emboldened

The current worker shortage has compelled many employers to raise pay.

In a Jan. 6, 2011, file photo, workers install parts on a truck on the Volvo truck assembly line at the Volvo plant in Dublin, Va.

UAW Factory Workers Ratify Deal, Will End Volvo Truck Strike

A difference of 17 votes ratified the deal.

In this Feb. 18, 2020 file photo, artifacts recovered from the Titanic sit on shelves at a storage facility in Atlanta. A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner. In an order released Monday, May 18, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith agreed that the telegraph is historically and culturally important and could soon be lost within the rapidly decaying wreck site.

Judge Says Salvage Firm Can Recover Titanic's Telegraph Machine

Recovering the telegraph “will contribute to the legacy left by the indelible loss of the Titanic."

This Nov. 26, 209 file photo shows Omega Protein's menhaden processing plant on Cockrell's Creek in Reedville, Va., The company that makes fish-oil supplements will keep its certification for sustainable fishing despite defiance of catch limits in the Chesapeake Bay. The Marine Stewardship Council’s sustainability marker is prominently displayed on seafood packages in grocery stores. It means that a company catches fish from a healthy population and leaves little impact on the food chain, among other factors.

Fish-Oil Firm Keeps 'Sustainable' Label

This is despite controversy over catch limit defiance.

In this Nov. 24, 2015 photo, Willie Mays, right, looks on as President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film 'Hidden Figures,' about pioneering black female aerospace workers, died Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.

'Hidden Figures' Mathematician Dies

In this Nov. 26, 1996 file photo, the docking bridge telegraph recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic is displayed in a large seawater-filled tank at the Nauticus National Maritime Center in Norfolk, Va. The salvage firm that has plucked artifacts from the sunken Titanic cruise ship over the decades is seeking a judge's permission to rescue more items from the rapidly deteriorating wreck.

Titanic's Iconic Telegraph Machine

It transmitted the doomed ship's increasingly frantic distress calls.

This Oct. 15, 2004 file photo shows a school of menhaden on the coast of Virginia Beach, VA.

Virginia Let Company Defy Fishing Limits in Bay

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted to find Virginia out of compliance because the state didn't enact a new harvest cap for a fish called menhaden.

Spectators crowd a pier as they watch a Chinese ship carrying giant cranes approach the entrance to Hampton Roads in Hampton, Va., Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. The four new ship- to-shore cranes are part of the $320 million expansion of Virginia International Gateway.

Massive Cranes Arrive in U.S.

Standing 170 feet tall, the Chinese-made gantry cranes towered over the ship that carried them through the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development Pat Wilson, from left, Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Georgia Governor-Elect Brian Kemp react to a speaker during a press conference in the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta. During the presser, Fortune 500 company Norfolk Southern officially announced that they will be moving their headquarters to Atlanta.

Norfolk Southern Moving to Atlanta

The move reflects a trend among larger companies moving to major cities for deeper pools of talent, busier airports and other amenities.

In this Jan 21, 2018, file photo provided by Rocket Lab, electron rocket carrying only a small payload of about 150 kilograms (331 pounds), lifts off from the Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's North Island's east coast. A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia.

Startup to Launch Satellites from Virginia

Rocket Lab is setting up in Virginia at a time of unprecedented growth in the use of smaller and relatively inexpensive satellites.

In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 photo, oysterman Chris Ludford, works sorting oysters on his lease oyster beds on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Va. As the shellfish makes a comeback, a modern-day oyster war is brewing, this time between wealthy waterfront property owners and working-class fishermen.

Oyster War Heats Up

Homeowners say the growing number of oystermen — dressed in waders and often tending cages of shellfish — spoil their views and invade their privacy.

Norfolk Southern employees wait down the road to be let into work, as the company placed a hold on entering the railyard, after the shooting at FreightCar America Tuesday morning, Oct. 25, 2016. Police say a man fatally shot someone and wounded several others inside FreightCar America, a rail car manufacturing company, before apparently killing himself.

2 Dead After Plant Shooting

Officers received a call of shots fired at 6:02 a.m. Tuesday and arrived two minutes later. But by that time, the perpetrator had fired 10 rounds.