Tag: Labor unions

Democratic Presidential hopeful, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., addresses striking Stop & Shop supermarket employees on the picket line on Friday, April 12, 2019, in Somerville, Mass. Unionized workers in three states walked off the job on Thursday over stalled contract negotiations.

Democrats back massive New England Stop & Shop worker walk out

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2019 6:43 pm

Union members protesting the right-to-work legislation wait to enter the Statehouse in Indianapolis.

Democrats want to turn the clock back to before 1947

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2019 4:00 am

Workers International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 3 protest outside the State House in advance of voting on right to work legislation in Concord, N.H.

Democrats to introduce anti-right-to-work bill

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2019 12:11 am

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta testifies during a hearing before the House Appropriations subcommittee on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Labor Department proposes rollback of Obama-era ‘joint employer’ workplace liability expansion

Sean Higgins · April 1, 2019 5:05 pm

Union workers and minimum wage activists gather for a Labor Day rally in downtown Los Angeles.

Unions step up push for $15 minimum wage in Congress

Sean Higgins · March 26, 2019 8:47 pm

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to members of the media.

Kamala Harris pledges to close teacher pay gap during first term

Naomi Lim · March 23, 2019 5:19 pm

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Magazine - Columnists

Can any 2020 Democrats speak Yinzer?

Salena Zito · March 22, 2019 4:00 am

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GM plant closure sparks 2020 campaign preview

James Langford · March 22, 2019 12:00 am

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Henderson, Nev.

Sanders campaign unionization raises questions about strikes and conflicts of interest

Sean Higgins · March 21, 2019 4:00 am

President Trump delivers remarks at the Lima Army Tank Plant, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Lima, Ohio.

Trump says union leaders are ‘not honest people’

Melissa Quinn · March 20, 2019 8:14 pm

Elementary school teachers Iris Marin, center, and Mireya Gutierrez, right, and Lorena Redford, clench fists at a rally in downtown Los Angeles.

Why won’t California unions let teachers go?

Harmeet K. Dhillon · March 18, 2019 4:00 am

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane sits parked at Boeing Field, Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Seattle.

Pilots: FAA didn’t wait too long to ground Boeing’s 737-8 Max plane

James Langford · March 16, 2019 4:00 am