Sean Higgins

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Democrats were noticeably unhappy with the part of Obama's State of the Union address about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (AP Photo)

Dems pan trade agreement section of speech

Sean Higgins · January 13, 2016 4:40 am

The UFCW funds groups that are trying to unionize the retail giant's employees. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Former Walmart board member Clinton wins backing of Walmart critic

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2016 10:37 pm

The United Food and Commercial Workers' backing is the latest in a string of major union endorsements Hillary Clinton has racked up. (AP file photo/Jason Redmond)

Clinton snags another big union endorsement

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2016 8:23 pm

During oral arguments Monday Scalia repeatedly expressed skeptism of the union's position, suggesting he would instead align with the court's other conservatives. (AP File Photo/Jim Mone)

Scalia’s skepticism bad news for unions

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2016 11:29 pm

The case is of major interest to labor unions, for whom the fees are a major source of revenue. (AP photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court questions unions’ worker fees

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2016 5:55 pm

Bernie Sanders envisions an alternative to traditional banking, one shorn of the "greed" of large commercial banks. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Sanders teams up with unions to push post office banking

Sean Higgins · January 10, 2016 5:01 am

"It gives unions a stronger collective bargaining position to advocate for everybody, members and non-members," said Lily Garcia, president of the 3 million-member National Education Association, of which the California union is a member. (AP File Photo)

Supreme Court to examine fairness of mandatory union fees

Sean Higgins · January 8, 2016 5:01 am

Manufacturers endorse TPP after ‘careful analysis’

Sean Higgins · January 4, 2016 4:02 pm

The new guidance says, among other prohibitions, that employers cannot inquire on the basis of a worker's "citizen status or national origin." (AP Photo)

Employers could get sued for following the law

Sean Higgins · January 4, 2016 5:01 am

Islamic State propaganda targets politicians, not Trump’s Muslim ban

Sean Higgins · December 23, 2015 5:01 am

Sanders said had union leaders listened to their rank and file members, he might have won the nods instead. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sanders slams Clinton’s union endorsements

Sean Higgins · December 17, 2015 7:37 pm

The hearing concerned legislation called the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, which wouldÂ limit the legal definitionÂ of a joint employer to two or more businesses that have "actual, direct andÂ immediate control" over a groupÂ of workers. (AP Photo)Â

Spending bill gives labor board pass on ‘joint employer’ rule

Sean Higgins · December 16, 2015 10:17 pm