Tag: Labor unions

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

Forced-funding schemes are unnecessary and violate the speech and associational rights of people. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Workers shouldn’t have to check their First Amendment rights at the door

Jared Blanchard · January 8, 2016 5:02 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

Beltway Confidential

Union admits it broke right-to-work law

Jason Russell · January 7, 2016 4:26 pm

Google's new self-driving prototype car is presented during a demonstration at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP photo)

POLICY ROUNDUP

Washington Examiner, Joana Suleiman · January 4, 2016 5:01 am

The Congress should resolve to fix what the U.S. government is doing wrong.

2016 New Year’s resolutions for Congress

Washington Examiner · January 4, 2016 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

With over 700,000 members, Communications Workers of America is one of the largest unions in the United States and by far the biggest to back Sanders over Clinton so far. (AP Photo)

Bernie’s biggest union endorsement yet

Ariel Cohen · December 17, 2015 4:12 pm

National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, left, with Democratic presidential candidate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. The AFL-CIO chipped in $40,000 to advocacy group Americans United for Change. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Republicans aren’t the only ones receiving ‘dark money’

Richard Berman · December 15, 2015 5:01 am

Tom Perez met with two members of unions, Unite Here and the Service Employees International Union, in Las Vegas on Dec. 7. (AP Photo)

Labor secretary pitching Clinton to unions

Sean Higgins · December 13, 2015 5:01 am

Union No

Mark Hemingway · December 11, 2015 5:23 am

Trump lands major endorsement from New England police union

Gabby Morrongiello · December 11, 2015 3:41 am