Tag: Labor unions

An "On Strike" placard sits on a post.

Beltway Confidential

Slate becomes a victim of its own ‘diversity’ obsession

Eddie Scarry · December 11, 2018 7:00 pm

Strike

Slate journalists vote to go on strike

Sean Higgins · December 11, 2018 4:41 pm

Elston Bradshaw, a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service closes a mail truck door after delivering mail to an apartment complex on Thursday, June 14, 2018, in Aventura, Fla.

Trump administration proposes major overhaul of the Postal Service

Sean Higgins · December 4, 2018 8:47 pm

Salena Zito: A second Black Monday?

Chris Lohr · December 3, 2018 8:42 pm

USDA made its employees show up for work. Now it’s teaching other agencies how to do the same

Pete Kasperowicz · November 28, 2018 10:00 pm

David and Marianne Trujillo exit the Vetaran Affairs facility in El Paso, Texas, Monday, June 9, 2014. Some Veterans Affairs facilities in Texas have among the longest wait-times in the nation for those trying to see a doctor for the first time, according to federal data released Monday. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)

VA rule banning union activity during the day challenged in lawsuit

Maria Biery · November 15, 2018 7:11 pm

Three statues portraying a wounded soldier being helped, stand on the grounds of the Minneapolis VA Hospital, Monday, June 9, 2014. An audit of 731 VA hospitals and clinics found that a 14-day goal for seeing first-time patients was unattainable given increasing demand for health care. The VA said Monday it was abandoning the scheduling goal.

VA bans medical employees from all union activities at work

Maria Biery · November 8, 2018 7:00 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2012, file photo, an employee works on a Passat sedan at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. Lured by low wages and tax-saving free trade agreements, auto companies from the U.S. and overseas are accelerating plans to build new factories and add jobs in Mexico. The moves, part of a decade-long trend, are luring investments and work that could have gone to the U.S. and Canada, according to experts. But they also are likely to keep car and truck prices in check even as automakers add expensive fuel-saving features to meet U.S. gas mileage requirements.

Unions to push new Democratic House to alter Trump’s trade deal

Sean Higgins · November 7, 2018 5:37 pm

Police officers wearing masks, patrol in Central, a business district in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020.

Police unions and police are often at odds, on politics and on other issues

Bernard Kerik · November 6, 2018 5:00 am

Employees at work in the new multibillion-dollar Honda car plant in Celaya, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.

Unions criticize USMCA wages provision, potentially endangering the deal

Sean Higgins · November 5, 2018 11:01 pm

Dennis Williams, president of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), speaks during the start of labor negotiations with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA), at the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. With negotiations kicking off this month between U.S. carmakers and their main domestic labor union, talks involving Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV are poised to be the most contentious.

Union using nonunion labor to build retirement home for former president

Sean Higgins · November 2, 2018 1:49 pm

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

Union leader downplays the electoral impact of Trump’s trade dealings

Sean Higgins · October 30, 2018 11:30 pm