Tag: Labor unions

Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine conducts the MET Orchestra.

Beltway Confidential

Pennsylvania musician challenges union mandates in petition to Supreme Court

Kevin Mooney · January 6, 2024 6:00 am

WILMERDING, PA - Workers arriving at the Westinghouse plant in 1904.

The silent death by a thousand cuts in manufacturing

Salena Zito · January 3, 2024 6:15 pm

Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the Culinary Workers Union's new contract Wednesday in Nevada and, in remarks, propped up organized labor as the backbone of the nation.

Harris cheers Culinary Workers’s ‘historic’ contract as Biden looks to solidify union support

Christian Datoc · January 3, 2024 6:07 pm

A worker carries a board at a home construction site Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in Piedmont, Okla. The housing market is in decline, raising fears of a broader recession.

Union bosses or real estate moguls? Tracking the PFT’s finances

Washington Examiner · December 18, 2023 12:47 pm

A worker climbs a staircase, left, as construction continues above him on the eastbound Kosciuszko Bridge carrying traffic on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278) over Newtown Creek between Brooklyn and Queens, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, in New York. The first of two, side-by-side, cable-stayed bridges will open in the spring of 2017, just three years after state transportation officials awarded $555 million to a project team to construct it. The new spans replace the original Kosciuszko Bridge, built in 1939. The Empire State Building is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Massachusetts among top states for union political contributions

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2023 1:10 pm

Microsoft teams with labor unions on dialogue about AI taking jobs

Christopher Hutton · December 11, 2023 5:38 pm

Longtime former Philadelphia labor leader John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty arrives at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.

Former Philadelphia labor union boss accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars

Misty Severi · December 1, 2023 11:10 pm

A retail shop was damaged on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in Philadelphia as a flash mob-style ransacked and vandalized downtown stores Tuesday night.

Why unions can’t moderate Democrats on crime

Conn Carroll · November 28, 2023 5:14 pm

President Joe Biden talks about his nomination of Julie Su, right, to serve as the Secretary of Labor during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

Biden’s labor proxy war against DeSantis

F. Vincent Vernuccio · November 22, 2023 11:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The UAW’s victory will hurt it in the end

David McGarry · November 19, 2023 11:02 am

Biden team scrambles to shore up support with longtime Democratic supporters Trump is courting

Jack Birle · November 17, 2023 3:38 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trial of Philadelphia labor leaders exposes the rampant corruption plaguing the country’s unions

Christopher Tremoglie · November 14, 2023 8:21 pm