Tag: Labor unions

Beltway Confidential

NEA survey shows how many might quit the union after Janus

David Freddoso · April 25, 2018 8:28 pm

The Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court case could hamper SEC, NLRB investigations

Sean Higgins · April 24, 2018 11:41 pm

SILVER GROVE, West Virginia â An unincorporated community in Jefferson county, West Virginia, on the eastern banks of the Shenandoah River.

Democrats try to win back labor in order to win back the House

Salena Zito · April 22, 2018 4:01 am

National Security

Union tries to scuttle Mac Thornberry’s plan for Pentagon cuts

Travis J. Tritten · April 20, 2018 9:18 pm

Arizona teachers have voted to walk off the job to demand increased school funding, marking a key step toward a first-ever statewide strike that builds on a movement for higher pay in other Republican-dominant states.

Arizona teacher strike an effort to increase state taxes

Sean Higgins · April 20, 2018 8:13 pm

In an article critical of campus "sensitivity," Harvard student Rachel Huebner explains that movements purporting to protect students have gone too far. (AP Photo)

Red Alert Politics

As Harvard votes to unionize, grad students should keep in mind the downsides of handing over control

John Patrick · April 19, 2018 5:12 pm

FILE - This is a Thursday, April 27, 2017 file photo of George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, as he waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels . Investor George Soros hit back Thursday June 1, 2017, against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leaderâs attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism.

George Soros groups’ staff unionizes

Sean Higgins · April 18, 2018 10:32 pm

Beltway Confidential

French President Emmanuel Macron just owned union protesters

Tom Rogan · April 18, 2018 7:01 pm

Arizona teachers and education advocates shout as they march at the Arizona Capitol highlighting low teacher pay and school funding Wednesday, March 28, 2018, in Phoenix.

Arizona teachers voting on walkout

Sean Higgins · April 17, 2018 10:08 pm

Actress Cynthia Nixon, the former "Sex and the City" star, says she'll challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's Democratic primary in September. Her announcement Monday sets up a race pitting an openly gay liberal activist against a two-term incumbent with a $30 million war chest and possible presidential ambitions.

Cynthia Nixon snags key progressive group endorsement in New York governor contest

Laura Barrón-López · April 14, 2018 9:30 pm

Thesis, Antithesis, Repeat

The Scrapbook · April 13, 2018 5:10 am

United Auto Workers strike signs are displayed on a fence at the General Motors service parts operation in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Autoworker to President Trump: Time to support workplace democracy

Terry Bowman · April 13, 2018 4:00 am