Tag: Labor unions

Cindy Archer, formerly Scott Walker's deputy administration secretary, filed the suit in federal court Wednesday. It names District Attorney John Chisholm and four other officials in his office as defendants. (AP Photo)Â

Civil rights suit filed against DA in Scott Walker ‘John Doe’ probe

Sean Higgins · July 1, 2015 11:49 pm

Larry Cohen participates in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2010, in Washington. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Union leader abandons Clinton to work for Sanders

Ariel Cohen · July 1, 2015 4:06 pm

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Gawker unionization fight: A symbol of union irrelevancy in today’s economy

Kevin Glass · July 1, 2015 4:01 am

In this 2013, photo provided by Center for Individual Rights, Rebecca Friedrichs, a veteran Orange County, Calif., school teacher, poses for a portrait. Friedrichs is the lead plaintiff in a case brought by group of California schoolteachers asking the Supreme Court to rule that unions representing government workers can't collect fees from those who choose not to join. (Greg Schneider/Courtesy of the Center for Individual Rights via AP)

Supreme Court agrees to hear major right-to-work case

Sean Higgins · June 30, 2015 7:18 pm

Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta, left, and others, are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on recent cyberattacks. From left are, Archuleta, OPM Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland, OPM Chief Information Officer Donna K. Seymour, Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Readiness Team Director Ann Barron-DiCamillo, KeyPoint Government Solutions Chief Executive Officer Eric A. Hess, and USIS Chief Information Officer Rob Giannetta. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

OPM sued over data breach by federal workers’ union

Nicole Duran · June 30, 2015 2:53 pm

In a letter to the Senate, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said it could not support the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act because the current version lacks any significant testing systems. (AP Photo)

Education fight pits teachers unions against civil rights activists

Sean Higgins · June 25, 2015 4:01 am

Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (Getty Images)

Strange bedfellows unite in scorn of high-tech visa program

Sean Higgins · June 19, 2015 4:01 am

In this photo illustration an old age pensioner checks what is left of her weekly state pension on November 6, 2008, in Conwy, Wales. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Pension agency issues rules for helping troubled multi-employer pension plans

Sean Higgins · June 17, 2015 6:37 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, joins members of the City Council and community leaders in a photo after he signed into law an ordinance that will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The ordinance makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

LA’s new $15 minimum wage could cost county residents $30m annually

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 4:01 am

The National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2004 that it had authority over tribal casinos, reversing decades of precedent. (AP File Photo)

Congress mulls federal labor exception for Indian tribes

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 12:05 am

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs speaks during his daily news briefing in 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Business snagging top Obama strategists

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2015 4:01 am

LA mayor says no exceptions to minimum wage

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2015 4:01 am