Tag: Labor unions

Oklahoma teacher strike ends

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2018 10:27 pm

Supporters of Illinois government employee Mark Janus cheer as he walks to thank them, outside the Supreme Court, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, in Washington. The Supreme Court takes up a challenge Monday in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor. The court is considering a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.

Democrats mobilize to offset Supreme Court’s expected ruling against unions

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2018 4:01 am

SEIU Local 1 union members protest for an increase in the minimum wage on Nov. 29, 2016, at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich.

SEIU slashes funding for $15 minimum wage movement

Sean Higgins · April 3, 2018 9:09 pm

The UAW’s double-dealing on Tesla

Vincent Vernuccio · April 3, 2018 4:00 am

Keagan Nedrow, left, and Reed Nedrow, bottom right, stand with their mother, Tara Nedrow, right, who teaches history at Union High School, and other teachers, during a teacher rally against low school funding at the state Capitol Oklahoma City, Monday, April 2, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Oklahoma’s teachers deserve better — so abolish their unions and let schools set pay individually

Tim Worstall · April 2, 2018 6:24 pm

Janus v. AFSCME could cost me my job, but here’s why it’s worth it

Madison Breshears · March 30, 2018 4:00 am

Republicans beware: Union workers are often your margin of victory

Michael P. Balzano · March 30, 2018 4:00 am

Trump says he’s bending union leaders his way

Sean Higgins · March 29, 2018 7:19 pm

A former senior adviser to Donald Trump claims the Republican presidential front-runner has virtually no campaign infrastructure in the primary states that lie ahead. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Trump touts infrastructure plan: ‘I was always very good at building’

Sarah Bedford · March 29, 2018 7:02 pm

Unions depriving children of education for pay and benefits, just to make a point?

Chantal Lovell, Vincent Vernuccio · March 27, 2018 4:00 am

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday, March 22, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Emmanuel Macron should follow Margaret Thatcher’s lead and break France’s railway unions

Tom Rogan · March 22, 2018 6:12 pm

Illinois government employee Mark Janus walks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor. The court is considering a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.

The Janus case: Uphold the Constitution, or protect its violators?

Robert Holland · March 22, 2018 4:00 am