Tag: Labor unions

The Employee Rights Act would allow workers to have a say in their representation at work, rather than being stuck with whichever union was chosen long ago.

Republicans should score a big win for employee rights

Washington Examiner · January 6, 2018 5:01 am

The Communications Workers of America says it is responsible for a $1,000 bonus American Airlines employees are set to receive. The company, though, has said that bonus is a product of the new GOP tax law. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg)

Union takes credit for tax cut bonuses to workers at American Airlines and other companies

Sean Higgins · January 4, 2018 11:50 pm

A report citing two anonymous sources says that the Department of Homeland Security is considering rules for the H1-B visa program that would apparently force recipients to go back to their country of origin before they could complete their green card applications. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump administration considers ending H-1B visa extensions

Sean Higgins · January 3, 2018 11:48 pm

Service Employees International Union Local 500 has been trying for about a year to organize the Council of American-Islamic Relations and has claimed that CAIR is involved in "union-busting." CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper (pictured center) has said the claim was "meritless." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

CAIR wins first round in fight against union organizing bid

Sean Higgins · January 2, 2018 5:36 pm

In mid-December, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed legislation that would create a new Treasury Department agency called the Pension Rehabilitation Administration that would provide 30-year loans at low interest rates to shore up failing pension plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats hope to undo bipartisan 2014 fix for troubled pension plans

Sean Higgins · January 2, 2018 5:01 am

An investigation revealing how New York City's "East Side Access" project became the most expensive mile of subway track on the planet shows why the city needs free-market reforms. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Beltway Confidential

New York’s subway: bureaucracy, cronyism, and unions run amok

Akash Chougule · December 30, 2017 8:03 pm

"Project Veritas hasn't released a single thing about the AFT. Which begs the question: what is Randi Weingarten so determined to keep hidden from the American public?" James O'Keefe said. (AP)

Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe accuses teachers union of ‘horrifying attack on free speech’

Sean Higgins · December 29, 2017 11:59 pm

In this photo from Sept. 4, 2017, members of the Service Employees International Union, SEIU, gather for a Labor Day rally in downtown Los Angeles. The SEIU works with traditional unions, but it also partners with worker centers that operate just outside of federal labor law, allowing them to recruit and organize in a manner that traditional union organizers cannot. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

The blurry line between worker centers and unions

Heather Greenaway · December 28, 2017 5:01 am

A U.S. district judge in Michigan rejected the American Federation of Teachers' claim that Project Veritas had illegally obtained trade secrets from it or that publishing them would harm the union. (AP)

Project Veritas wins round in court against teachers union

Sean Higgins · December 27, 2017 10:27 pm

Lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, want to know why William Emanuel didn't recuse himself from a case that overturned a decision that controversially expanded the labor board's joint employer standard. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats demand to know why NLRB member voted on major case

Sean Higgins · December 26, 2017 8:37 pm

Tens of thousands of people are involved in the industry, which has unions seeking to outmaneuver each other in an effort to sign them up. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Unions look to organize pot industry

Sean Higgins · December 26, 2017 7:35 pm

Economists from Miami University and Trinity University found that this $15 minimum wage will cost the state 400,000 jobs by the time it is fully phased-in. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Red Alert Politics

New minimum wage hikes set to kill jobs in 2018

Brendan Pringle · December 25, 2017 1:04 pm