Tag: Labor unions

In this June 12, 2013, file photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., listen to testimony from Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command before the Senate Appropriations Committee. U.S. authorities have said they are reducing the amount of time they will delay deporting the few immigrants in the country illegally awaiting congressional decisions to legalize their immigration status after lawmakers file so-called "private bills" supporting their last-ditch bids to remain in the country. Senators Durbin and Feinstein criticized the decision to change longstanding practices they said was made without consulting lawmakers.

Democrats running for Feinstein seat try to make their case to California unions

Eden Villalovas · May 8, 2023 4:46 pm

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., accompanied by Republican Senators speaks at a news conference to announce a Republican police reform bill on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington.

Koch-backed group urges lawmakers to back bill curbing union power ahead of Su hearing

Samantha-Jo Roth · April 19, 2023 6:07 pm

A mother and her baby girl sit in a passenger airline seat, the sun shining brightly in through the plane window.

Mothers express dismay over airline union plans to scrap ‘lap baby’ seats

Breccan F. Thies · April 13, 2023 5:25 pm

Beltway Confidential

Biden and Democrats break the law by interfering with Starbucks labor dispute

James Rogan · April 5, 2023 8:09 am

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz drinks from a Starbucks mug as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Republicans forced to defend liberal Starbucks at ‘union-busting’ hearing

David Sivak · March 29, 2023 8:41 pm

President Joe Biden continues to lean into his strong ties to union labor ahead of a reelection campaign launch that's "pretty much" been already been announced.

Biden seeks to rekindle magic with labor unions as reelection announcement looms

Christian Datoc · March 3, 2023 10:30 am

Biden to court firefighter group that became first major union to endorse him in 2020

Ryan King · March 1, 2023 11:57 pm

Imagine there’s no public employee unions

David Freddoso · February 17, 2023 3:45 am

President Joe Biden visited with the Laborers' International Union of North America in Deforest, Wisconsin Wednesday, marking the first stop of a soft kickoff for his 2024 reelection campaign.

Biden takes his ‘blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America’ on road to Wisconsin

Christian Datoc · February 8, 2023 8:25 pm

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members stand outside the capitol in Lansing, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Michigan could become the 24th state with a right-to-work law next week. Rules require a five-day wait before the House and Senate vote on each other's bills; lawmakers are scheduled to reconvene Tuesday and Gov.Snyder has pledged to sign the bills into law. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Beltway Confidential

Michigan Democrats are leading an assault on worker rights

Brad Polumbo · January 26, 2023 6:04 am

Chicago labor union touts city as ‘birthplace of labor’ in 2024 Democratic convention pitch

Misty Severi · January 26, 2023 12:25 am

Rearview shot of a crowd protesting outside a public building

Beltway Confidential

Decline in union density is no cause for worry

Daniel Griswold · January 23, 2023 1:26 pm