Tag: Labor unions

Police nearing contract amid Detroit bankruptcy

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 9:40 am

Members of the Teamsters Union picket at LBCT in the Port of Long Beach, Calif., in support of a strike by port truck drivers Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Nearly 1,000 dockworkers briefly walked off their jobs Tuesday at the massive ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, disrupting the movement of international cargo before a mediator ordered them back. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Stephen Carr)

Labor dispute briefly shuts LA, Long Beach ports

Justin Pritchard · July 9, 2014 3:31 am

FILE - This Oct. 2, 2013, file photo shows part of the Johns Hopkins Hospital complex in Baltimore. The hospital has reached a tentative labor agreement with a union representing about 2,000 workers at the medical institution. A Hopkins spokeswoman said Tuesday, July 8, 2014, that a union vote will take place over the next couple of days on the tentative agreement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Johns Hopkins, union reach tentative labor pact

Juliet Linderman · July 8, 2014 7:06 pm

Truck drivers and supporters picket outside the offices of Green Fleet Systems in Carson, Calif., on Monday, July 7, 2014. The truckers say the companies have prevented them from unionizing and improperly classified them as contractors, rather than full-time employees, to minimize wages and benefits. (AP Photo/Matt Hamilton)

Truckers strike at Los Angeles, Long Beach ports

Justin Pritchard · July 8, 2014 2:29 am

About the best thing that Big Labor can say about the recently concluded Supreme Court term is that it could have been much worse for them. (iStock)

Big Labor’s big problems with the Supreme Court

Sean Higgins · July 7, 2014 9:47 pm

VIDEO: Advocates call Obama education initiative a ‘good first step’

Ed Sykes · July 7, 2014 9:28 pm

Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks about education, Monday, July 7, 2014, during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. The nation's largest teachers' union wants Duncan to quit. Delegates of the National Education Association adopted a business item July 4 at its annual convention in Denver that called for his resignation. The vote underscores the long standing tension between the Obama administration and teachers' unions _ historically a steadfast Democratic ally. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

NEA wants Duncan’s resignation

Kimberly Hefling · July 7, 2014 4:59 pm

Washington state unions plan to negotiate for competitive pay

Associated Press · July 7, 2014 9:35 am

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) president Richard Trumka addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at Los Angeles Convention Center Monday, Sept 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Beltway Confidential

Union leaders having a hard time talking about Harris v. Quinn

Sean Higgins · July 5, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - This Sept. 10, 2012, file photo shows thousands of public school teachers rallying outside the Chicago Public Schools district headquarters on the first day of strike action over teachers' contracts in Chicago. A majority of union members today now have ties to a government entity at the federal, state or local levels. The typical union worker now is more likely to be an educator, office worker or food or service industry employee rather than a construction worker, autoworker, electrician or mechanic, with far more women than men among the ranks. Overall, 11.3 percent of U.S. wage and salary workers are unionized, down from a peak of 35 percent during the mid-1950s. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong, File)

Unions representing government workers are gaining

Tom Raum · July 4, 2014 2:55 pm

FILE - In this April 25, 2014, file photo, Northwestern football players walk between their locker room and McGaw Hall, where voting is taking place on the student athlete union question in Evanston, Ill. A national organization representing college and university presidents is disputing a federal ruling that students who receive college athletic scholarships are essentially employees of their schools and thus entitled to join unions and exercise collective-bargaining rights. Student-athletes participate for their own benefit; they do not render services for compensation, said the 1,800 member American Council on Education. Ahead of a midnight deadline, the council filed a 30-page friend-of-the court brief taking strong issue with the ruling earlier this year by a National Labor Relations Board regional director that allows college athletes at Northwestern University to unionize.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

College presidents say no to unions for athletes

Tom Raum · July 3, 2014 11:15 pm

JerShon Cobb #23 of the Northwestern Wildcats celebrates after hitting a three-pointer during the second half of play against the Wisconsin Badgers at Kohl Center on January 29, 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo by Mike McGinnis/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans file briefs against Northwestern athletes union

Sean Higgins · July 3, 2014 9:13 pm