Tag: Labor unions

"We've had a tremendous relationship with law enforcement. I appreciate everything that is going on," Donald Trump told the officers on Monday. (AP Photo)

Trump courts police union ahead of endorsement

Gabby Morrongiello · August 22, 2016 9:04 pm

Randi Weingarten just doesn't make the connection that financial regulations from 2010 are causing the problem and that more financial regulations will only make it worse. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

This political move is why members want to leave their unions

Jason Russell · August 19, 2016 5:46 pm

Almost 30 percent of union members said they would opt out if they could do so without losing their job. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

One in four union members favors right-to-work

Sean Higgins · August 15, 2016 6:56 pm

Organizers of march for $15 wage link up with Black Lives Matter, liken opponents to backers of slavery. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Union seeks to make $15 minimum wage a race issue

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 8:56 pm

Participants in march to raise the wage either don't believe evidence it kills jobs or don't care. (Sean Higgins/Washington Examiner)

Activists dismiss drawbacks of $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 8:48 pm

The protesters claimed they were being denied union rights by the Service Employees International Union, the primary funder and organizer of the Fight for $15, the leading activist group in the minimum wage hike movement. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Union protested by its own minimum wage organizers

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 4:01 am

SEIU isn't just a supporter of the cause. It is largely the reason why the $15 minimum wage movement is on the national agenda. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Major labor union behind push for $15 minimum

Sean Higgins · August 12, 2016 4:01 am

"The next year-and-a-half must be founded upon building our capacity to strike, and our capacity to create a state crisis, in early 2018," said Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Phuong Le)

Beltway Confidential

California teachers’ unions ready to create chaos

Jason Russell · August 11, 2016 6:33 pm

Striking union members bang on plastic buckets outside the trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City N.J. during a strike Tuesday July 5, 2016. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is to visit Atlantic City on Wednesday to bash Donald Trump's record of running casinos here in the 1908s and 1990s, but the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hasn't owned the Taj Mahal for years; it now belongs to his friend and fellow billionaire Carl Icahn. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Washington Secrets

AFL-CIO plots union expansion after Clinton victory

Paul Bedard · August 10, 2016 3:28 pm

"Pundits can evaluate the political meaning if the want, but my view is very plain: These are hateful and racist viewpoints," Richard Trumka said. (AP Photo)Â

Washington Secrets

Union blues: 57% say labor leaders ‘out of touch,’ 2-in-10 say they do ‘good job’

Paul Bedard · August 10, 2016 2:45 pm

Congress mandated in 2006 that the Postal Service pay down those future obligations to ensure that taxpayers do not get stuck with the bill, and the postal service has been devoting about $5.6 billion annually toward that goal. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Postal Service posts $1.6B loss for quarter

Sean Higgins · August 9, 2016 9:27 pm

"We need to send TPP to its grave where it belongs!", said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

NY Dems want to send TPP ‘to the grave’

Becket Adams · July 27, 2016 9:13 pm