Tag: Labor unions

All individual workers should have the freedom to choose whether a union is right for them, a right many workers lack. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

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Labor Day: Give workers, not labor unions, more rights

Trey Kovacs · September 1, 2017 4:00 pm

Following President Trump's Twitter announcement that transgender people will be barred from the military, the personnel, health care and fairness issues sure to ensue may compel some soldiers, sailors and others to hide their identities and live a lie to remain in the military.

Workers union decries Trump’s 1.9 percent pay raise for federal employees

Anna Giaritelli · September 1, 2017 12:47 am

Top officials at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobby, said that the chances of getting major tax reform through Congress in the next year were better than they have been in decades thanks to President Trump's election. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Chamber of Commerce says odds for tax reform best in 30 years

Sean Higgins · August 31, 2017 10:15 pm

If France is to escape its current economic malaise it must confront the source of that problem. Finally, a French president is now doing so.

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Emmanuel Macron drags France towards labor reform

Tom Rogan · August 31, 2017 3:23 pm

The UAW refuses to accept that the object of their desire wants no relationship with them. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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The UAW needs to take ‘no’ for an answer

Terry Bowman · August 31, 2017 12:00 am

AFL-CIO leader said Trump enjoyed a 13-point swing from the 2012 election because union workers "did not not hear a kitchen-table economic message that really addressed their needs." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Union voters swung behind Trump, Richard Trumka says

Sean Higgins · August 30, 2017 7:24 pm

"Not enough was exposed for us to know if it is going to be real change or just tinkering and window dressing," Trumka said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka says NAFTA talks off to a mixed start

Sean Higgins · August 30, 2017 6:18 pm

"You had one faction that actually had some of the policies we would have supported on trade and infrastructure but they turned out to be racists. On the other hand, you had people who weren't racist, but they were Wall Streeters." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka: Some White House aides wanted to work with us, but ‘they turned out to be racists’

Sean Higgins · August 30, 2017 2:58 pm

In an order Wednesday, the court stayed part of a district court decision "with respect to refugees covered by a formal assurance." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Supreme Court asked to take up fight over mandatory union fees

Sean Higgins · August 29, 2017 10:37 pm

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a rally where he announces a plan to fund MTA improvements on Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in New York. De Blasio wants to tax the wealthiest 1 percent of city residents to fund repairs and improvements to the nation's largest subway system. (AP Photo/Michael Noble Jr.)

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Bill de Blasio puts unions before New York commuters

Tom Rogan · August 28, 2017 2:44 pm

The only ones hurt by right-to-work and its related reforms are the union bosses who see it as a threat to the steady stream of forced union dues they've come to depend on. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Union workers want freedom, so why do union bosses oppose it?

Robert Fellner · August 25, 2017 4:01 am

Former President Ronald Reagan will be inducted into the Labor Department's Hall of Fame, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced Thursday. Acosta noted that the late Republican president had the unique distinction of being the only president of a labor organization to also sit in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)

Ronald Reagan to go into Labor Department’s Hall of Fame

Sean Higgins · August 24, 2017 5:52 pm