Tag: Unions

A preschool student listens as her teacher talks during class at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Monday was the first day of optional in-person learning for preschoolers and some special education students in Chicago Public Schools after going remote last March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Beltway Confidential

School reopening must balance physical health and mental health

Kimberly Ross · February 19, 2021 3:56 pm

Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks as Neera Tanden, President Joe Bidenâs nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testifies during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.

To the union allies of the victor go the pension spoils

Aharon Friedman · February 15, 2021 5:00 am

President Joe Biden walks towards members of the media before boarding to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday to Marine One for a flight to Camp David.

White House Report Card: Biden tough on virus aid, soft on immigration

Paul Bedard · February 13, 2021 3:46 pm

Artful dodger

Nicholas Clairmont · February 12, 2021 4:01 am

Magazine - Your Land

‘They are playing with our lives’

Kaylee McGhee White · February 12, 2021 4:00 am

Energy Transfer, suing in U.S. District Court in North Dakota, claims the environmental groups committed racketeering and defamation that increased the cost of construction by at least $300 million. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Energy and Environment

Biden’s next big pipeline decision could deepen clash of greens and unions

Josh Siegel · February 12, 2021 4:00 am

In this Aug. 14, 2017, file photo, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera listens to questions during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco. The city of San Francisco took a dramatic step Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in its effort to get children back into public school classrooms, suing its own school district to try to force open the doors amid the coronavirus pandemic. City Attorney Herrera, with the backing of Mayor London Breed, announced he had sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District in a statement and discussed it at a news conference.

San Francisco files suit against school district to reopen amid ‘mental health crisis’

Zach Halaschak · February 12, 2021 3:05 am

44,000 GM employees eligible for $9,000 bonuses via profit-sharing agreement

Haley Victory Smith · February 10, 2021 8:10 pm

Children in a classroom.

Chicago Teachers Union and public schools agree to deal to restart in-person education

Mike Brest · February 10, 2021 1:15 pm

Pictured is an empty classroom, with the focus on one orange chair among a row, with a chalkboard at the front of the room beyond.

Chicago announces tentative agreement to resume in-person learning

Kaelan Deese · February 8, 2021 5:53 pm

Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot speaks to reporters after meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel at City Hall, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, the day after she defeated Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff election.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blames Trump for impasse between city and teachers union

Michael Lee · February 2, 2021 9:35 pm

Chicago withdraws threat to teachers who decline to teach in person

Jake Dima · February 2, 2021 7:08 pm