Tag: Labor unions

Labor experts have predicted a significant percentage of employees would stop supporting their union if given the choice. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Supreme Court case on compulsory union dues: Are teachers unknowingly supporting Democrats?

Kate Hardiman · November 10, 2017 7:16 pm

The legislation would allow workers to petition their union to hold a recertification vote whenever its membership has had more than 50 percent turnover from the last union election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

GOP lawmakers introduce bill to require union recertification

Sean Higgins · November 10, 2017 12:21 am

While publicly claiming to fight for working women, the SEIU appears to have been part of the very problem it decried. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Beltway Confidential

Recent allegations of sexual misconduct lead to ousting of four SEIU officials

Emily Jashinsky · November 6, 2017 3:14 pm

President Trump is close to picking Vermont lawyer Peter Robb to be the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, sources indicate. (Wikipedia Commons)

Congress moves to reshape the NLRB

Sean Higgins · November 5, 2017 4:01 am

A worker operates a touchscreen computer at a robotic production line at the Fuyao Glass America plant, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Moraine, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UAW tries again in a town where it once caused devastating job losses

Vincent Vernuccio · November 3, 2017 4:01 am

Online brokerage TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, who was also CEO of DNAinfo and had bought Gothamist earlier this year, decided to shut his media companies amid financial hardships and a successful union vote. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Billionaire CEO Joe Ricketts shuts down DNAinfo, Gothamist after union vote

Katie Leach · November 2, 2017 10:58 pm

The question going forward is whether Bannon will court more distant progressive allies as he sets out to transform his own party. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Beltway Confidential

As Trump’s strategist, Steve Bannon set out to find common ground with major union leader

Emily Jashinsky · November 2, 2017 3:10 pm

Bannon, then President Trump's chief strategist, was seeking ways to recruit left-wing groups to aid the president's agenda. (AP)

Teachers union head met privately with Steve Bannon

Sean Higgins · November 1, 2017 10:14 pm

President Trump is close to picking Vermont lawyer Peter Robb to be the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, sources indicate. (Wikipedia Commons)

NLRB names interim replacement for General Counsel Richard Griffin

Sean Higgins · November 1, 2017 9:54 pm

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks at a news conference on American labor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democratic leaders call for end to right-to-work

Sean Higgins · November 1, 2017 6:35 pm

Summing up the outrage, the United Steelworkers complained that "inconsistent administration policy on the RFS threatens thousands of refinery jobs across the country." (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

As Trump bows to big ethanol, more blue-collar voters realize the president was never a union guy

Philip Wegmann · October 30, 2017 3:35 pm

Organized labor is major source of campaign funding for the Democratic Party members, giving more than $59 million in the 2016 election cycle alone, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Conservative groups put the total unions give to Democrats, various liberal activist groups and political action committees between 2012 and 2016 at $765 million.

After 70 years, Washington gets serious about labor reforms

Sean Higgins · October 30, 2017 4:01 am