Tag: Labor unions

President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image via AP)

The 9 biggest things to watch in Trump’s first State of the Union

Sarah Bedford · January 30, 2018 9:00 am

A new poll from the American Federation for Children shows that school choice is highly prized by parents and voters. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Beltway Confidential

To celebrate school choice, expand federal support for charter schools

Nina Rees · January 25, 2018 5:01 am

The talks have not gone well for the U.S., Canadian, and Mexican officials negotiating the NAFTA free trade deal. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Democrats slam Mexico on labor rights, urge tough NAFTA stance

Sean Higgins · January 25, 2018 12:24 am

The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act would amend the National Labor Relations Act to state that the NLRB's enforcement powers don't extend to Native American reservations. (Wikipedia)

Congress looks to make unionizing tribal casinos difficult

Sean Higgins · January 20, 2018 5:01 am

The overall trend remains bad for the labor movement. Just a decade ago, the unionization rate was 12.1 percent. It was 20.1 percent in 1983 when the Labor Department first started compiling the data. (Photo via Wikipedia)

Union membership stuck at historic low in 2017

Sean Higgins · January 19, 2018 5:35 pm

Giving all students the freedom to attend the high-quality school of their choice would do more than perhaps anything else to spread opportunity equally to all races. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In the land of opportunity, education should be King

Washington Examiner · January 15, 2018 5:01 am

On Friday, President Trump nominated business lawyer John Ring to ensure the National Labor Relations Board will have a majority of Republican appointees. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Trump pick John Ring would ensure GOP majority at labor enforcement agency

Sean Higgins · January 13, 2018 12:32 am

Public pension managers are increasingly using the funds entrusted to them for their own political agendas, with dangerous financial consequences for entire generations of workers. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)

Financial performance, not politics, matters most to America’s pension holders

Mark J. Perry · January 12, 2018 5:01 am

Vox Media is the parent corporation of Vox.com, a popular left-leaning news and analysis website, as well as Curbed, Eater, Polygon, Racked, Recode, SB Nation, and the Verge. (screenshot)

Union claims victory in bid to organize workers at Vox

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2018 10:31 pm

In this Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, image made from a video provided by KATC-TV middle-school English teacher Deyshia Hargrave speaks during a Vermilion Parish School Board meeting in Abbeville, La., west of New Orleans. Hargrave was removed from the school board meeting, forcibly handcuffed, and jailed after questioning pay policies during a public comment period. (KATC-TV via AP)

Louisiana teacher involved in viral arrest won’t be prosecuted, school superintendent gets death threats

Victor I. Nava · January 11, 2018 12:47 am

The number of assaults against Customs and Border Protection was 847 in fiscal year 2017, which ended Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Assaults on border agents going unpunished: Union official

Anna Giaritelli · January 9, 2018 5:01 pm

Teachers unions are corrupt and powerful, and they provide millions of dollars to equally corrupt politicians so that they'll do everything in their power to keep families from accessing the educational alternatives they desperately desire. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

In 2018, lawmakers should do something completely different to improve education

Teresa Mull · January 8, 2018 5:01 am