Tag: Labor unions

Measures would roll back changes made by the NLRB that critics said were unfair and designed to boost union organizing. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

House GOP advances pro-business labor law bills

Sean Higgins · June 29, 2017 8:04 pm

Finkle's order is one small victory in the larger fight for workers' freedoms across America. But it's no small victory if a union is trying to skim from that loved one's benefit payments without their permission or yours. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workers’ freedom scores a small victory in Washington state

Michael Hartmann · June 29, 2017 4:01 am

The head of Unite Here was upset with the Democrats for attacking the GOP's repeal legislation as a sop to the wealthiest because, in part, it delays for four years the implementation of a so-called "Cadillac tax" on high-premium health insurance plans. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Unite Here union leader blasts Democrats over Obamacare ‘Cadillac tax’

Sean Higgins · June 28, 2017 5:37 pm

Just as no single person or entity is responsible alone for Metro's problems, there's also no silver bullet solution. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Metro — Washington’s underground rip-off

Washington Examiner · June 25, 2017 4:01 am

A candidate like Bryce can walk into union halls, work a high school auditorium, and glad-hand factory floors without looking or sounding like a fraud. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

What the DNC and Tom Perez can learn from Randy Bryce, the mustachioed iron worker challenging Speaker Ryan

Philip Wegmann · June 20, 2017 10:13 pm

There are an estimated 346 VA employees who do no actual work for the taxpayers, according to a January report by the nonpartisan Government Accounting Office. Instead, these federal workers spend all of their time doing union work. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

VA Secretary Shulkin says reform needed for union official time

Sean Higgins · June 20, 2017 4:38 pm

Ninety-four percent of those represented by unions never voted for one, according to The Heritage Foundation. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn, wants to change that by requiring periodic referendums on continuing with a union. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Illinois worker recounts ordeal to decertify union

Sean Higgins · June 14, 2017 10:55 pm

Ninety-four percent of those represented by unions never voted for one, according to The Heritage Foundation. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn, wants to change that by requiring periodic referendums on continuing with a union. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Phil Roe: The Employee Rights Act brings labor laws into the 21st century

Akash Chougule, Rep. Phil Roe · June 14, 2017 11:00 am

Spicer believes President Trump's business acumen can improve the administrative services at the VA. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House sends VA reform bill to president

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 9:25 pm

The first round results indicate Macron's La Republique En Marche (LREM) Party is likely to win a huge majority. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Beltway Confidential

Macron’s parliamentary election win is good news for France

Tom Rogan · June 12, 2017 2:00 pm

Although Obama-era Title IX mandates attempted to correct this wrong, they have instead swung the pendulum too far in the opposite direction, creating a new class of student victims wrongfully found responsible for sexual assaults they did not commit. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Why labor needs its own ERA

Heather Greenaway · June 12, 2017 4:01 am

The Employee Rights Act would apply the same common-sense solution that citizens use to elect their political leaders. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Employee Rights Act will let GOP make the case for workers’ rights

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2017 4:01 am