Tag: Labor unions

After a pressure campaign by teachers unions, the Discovery Channel has knuckled under and canceled the program "Bad Teachers." The true-crime series, which examines cases where teachers became sexually involved with their students, aired its only episode last week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Teachers unions get Discovery Communications to cancel ‘Bad Teacher’ show

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

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NLRB rules workers must pay year’s worth of dues to decertified union

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, looks on, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, right, talks to President of the United Federation of Teachers Michael Mulgrew during a news conference at City Hall in New York, Thursday, May 1, 2014. New York City and its largest teachers union struck a deal on a new contract Thursday, ending a nearly five-year labor dispute and potentially setting a template for negotiations with the city's other unions. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYC, teachers strike deal that could be template

Jonathan Lemire · May 1, 2014 11:22 pm

Northwestern running back Venric Mark speaks at a news conference after his football team participates in a NCAA college football practice April 1 in Evanston, Ill. (AP/M. Spencer Green)

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Congress to hold hearing on union efforts to organize NCAA athletes in light of Northwestern union vote

Sean Higgins · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

VIDEO: Pamela Harris speaks about her Supreme Court case against Illinois governor

Steve Doty · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

AFL-CIO: North Dakota’s worker death rate highest

Washington Examiner · April 30, 2014 9:08 pm

Wash. AG says scammers pretending to be from public employees’ credit union

Bryan Cohen · April 30, 2014 5:52 pm

GRAPHIC: Union chiefs’ annual pay

Chris Henderson · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

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Michigan union loses 80 percent of members in one year

Sean Higgins · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting at the Venetian Las Vegas on March 29, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Scott Walker has already won — on labor union reform

Philip Klein · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Restaurant Opportunities Center United advocates for an increase in the minimum wage. (AP File)

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Liberal activist group admits it failed to disclose lobbying

Sean Higgins · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Ronald Hooks, the National Labor Relations Board's regional director for the Seattle area, said Seattle University was "not a church-operated institution within the meaning of" the Supreme Court's precedent because it lacks "substantial religious character." (AP File)

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NLRB says Catholic university not religious enough to bar unions

Sean Higgins · April 29, 2014 4:00 am