Sean Higgins

Read the latest stories and analysis from Sean Higgins.

While the National Labor Relations Board has five members, the person leading the charge is its general counsel, Richard Griffin.

NLRB’s Griffin pushes the envelope in labor law

Sean Higgins · April 13, 2015 9:00 am

Hillary Clinton: I’m running for president as champion of ‘everyday Americans’

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2015 7:42 pm

Liberal anger lingers after Rahm’s victory in Chicago

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2015 12:17 am

Lauren McGarity McFerran was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday to be the newest member of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. (AP Photo)

Agency’s union ‘speedy election’ rule has no firm deadlines

Sean Higgins · April 7, 2015 5:57 pm

"Especially with this crazy political atmosphere, this is a place where we need to be lending support to middle-of-the-road Democrats and Republicans both, and this is part of that effort," Jeffrey Soth, the Operating Engineers' political director, told National Journal last year. (AP Photo)

GOP group’s super PAC mostly funded by unions

Sean Higgins · April 6, 2015 9:00 am

The money primarily went to nonprofit groups and public relations firms with the aim of making the effort look like an organic, grassroots movement.

Union spent $23 million last year on higher minimum wage push

Sean Higgins · April 2, 2015 9:00 am

The federal government has said in a major, closely watched lawsuit that McDonald's Corp. violated workers' union rights at its individual franchise restaurants. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)

Feds refusing to show cards in McDonald’s case

Sean Higgins · March 31, 2015 9:00 am

Protesters participate in a display of civil disobedience as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

U.S. signed agreement with Mexico to teach immigrants to unionize

Sean Higgins · March 30, 2015 9:00 am

An investigation by the Oregonian found evidence that the developers lied and forged signatures on documents to convince state officials that the project was further along than it actually was to meet the qualifications for the credits. (Getty)

Energy and Environment

Oregon investigating fraud in colleges’ solar power project

Sean Higgins · March 27, 2015 9:15 pm

A stele and flowers laid in memory of the victims are placed in the area where the Germanwings jetliner crashed in the French Alps. (AP Photo)Â

Airlines to re-examine cockpit safety, pilot health issues

Sean Higgins · March 27, 2015 4:13 pm

Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, center, with Gen. David Galtier, right,holds a press conference in Marseille, southern France, Thursday March 26, 2015. Robin said the co-pilot was alone at the controls of the Germanwings flight that slammed into an Alpine mountainside and "intentionally" sent the plane into the doomed descent, killing 150 people. (AP Photo)

National Security

FAA requires door locks that figured into German crash

Sean Higgins · March 26, 2015 10:16 pm

House moves against Obama White House’s secrecy habit

Sean Higgins · March 25, 2015 9:02 am