Tag: Labor unions

Beltway Confidential

ACLU fights its own workers’ union, complains of ‘extortion’ tactics

Sean Higgins · July 31, 2013 4:00 am

Jeffrey David Cox, American Federation of Government Employees president, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about furloughs at the Pentagon. (AP File)

Federal employees union to Pentagon: Stop all furloughs

Tim Mak · July 30, 2013 4:00 am

Two insiders are claiming the International Brotherhood of Teamsters submittied forged signatures to a federal agency. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Teamster whistleblowers claim union submitted forged signatures to federal agency

Sean Higgins · July 30, 2013 4:00 am

The sign for the National Labor Relations Board is seen on the building that houses their headquarters in downtown Washington, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. For such a tiny government agency, the NLRB has played an outsize role in the heated Senate filibuster fight over Obama administration nominations. But the board has long been at the center of a decades-long clash between labor unions looking to organize new members and business groups seeking to limit the role of unions in the workplace. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Senate approves Obama’s picks to labor board

Sean Lengell · July 30, 2013 4:00 am

Henry Ford raised the wages of his workers while cutting the price of his Model T, but his competitors at General Motors and Chrysler caught up as Ford aged. (AP File)

Working Man’s Blues: What Democrats and unions have done to Detroit

Sean Higgins · July 26, 2013 4:00 am

A supervisor checks a vehicle on the assembly line at the Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit. Jobs at such factories would be imperiled by President Trump's proposed tariffs on automotive imports, Canada warned.

How the UAW made Michigan a right-to-work state

Sean Higgins · July 26, 2013 4:00 am

Chrysler Corp. employees work on 1996 Dodge Vipers on the first day of production at the new Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit on Friday, Oct. 27, 1995. (AP Photo/Richard Sheinwald)

The Bush and Obama bailouts ‘save’ the UAW

Sean Higgins · July 25, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare

Joel Gehrke · July 25, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, questioned National Labor Relations Board nominee Nancy Jean Schiffer about card check during her hearing. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

NLRB nominee Schiffer was card check advocate for AFL-CIO

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

Workers at the new Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tenn., work on the assembly line in May 1983. (AP Photo)

Detroit downsizes as Japan builds plants in the right-to-work South

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

NLRB nominee: Agency could not enact card check on its own

Sean Higgins · July 23, 2013 4:00 am

The last American-made convertible, a Cadillac Eldorado, rolls off the assembly line at General Motors' Cadillac plant in Detroit, April 21, 1976. It ends an era that began in 1916 with the automaker. Riding the car off the line, from left, H.B. Brawner, general manufacturing manager Cadillac; Detroit Mayor Coleman Young with Ed Kennard, Cadillac's general manager, driving. In back are representative employees of final assembly, engine and paint divisions. (AP Photo/Preston Stroup)

Even the Big Three’s boom years had to end

Sean Higgins · July 23, 2013 4:00 am