Tag: Labor unions

Overall, 14.8 million workers nationally belong to a labor organization, the same as last year. (AP Photo/Greg Moore)

Finance and Economy

Union membership holds at 11.1 percent of workforce

Sean Higgins · January 28, 2016 9:20 pm

Subpoena: Teamsters official falsified Uber receipts

Sean Higgins · January 27, 2016 1:41 pm

The legislation would prohibit workers from being forced to join a union or pay it a regular fee as a condition of employment. (AP file photo/Keith Srakocic)

West Virginia passes right-to-work law

Sean Higgins · January 21, 2016 7:56 pm

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO pushes the Employee Rights Act, which would reduce union power. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Fiorina vows to rein in unions

Sean Higgins · January 20, 2016 9:44 pm

On Wednesday, the NLRB invited interested parties to submit legal briefs on the question, the first step required by the board before it can rewrite one of its rules. (AP Photo)

NLRB mulls letting graduate students unionize

Sean Higgins · January 14, 2016 7:35 pm

If Rebecca Friedrichs does win, it would be a victory for any worker, of any race, who no longer wants to pay for a union he or she doesn't want to be a part of.

Beltway Confidential

Why Democrats should root against unions in major Supreme Court case

Jason Russell · January 12, 2016 10:44 pm

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

On Monday, the Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a challenge to the 1977 precedent that permitted union freeloading on the backs of more than 700,000 unwilling government workers. (AP Photo)

High court must stop unions from picking workers’ pockets

Washington Examiner · January 12, 2016 5:01 am

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

Beltway Confidential

After harassment, teacher hopes for end of unions

Jason Russell · January 11, 2016 9:19 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