Tag: Labor

The United Food and Commercial Workers' backing is the latest in a string of major union endorsements Hillary Clinton has racked up. (AP file photo/Jason Redmond)

Clinton snags another big union endorsement

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2016 8:23 pm

(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Job openings, hiring ticked up in November

Joseph Lawler · January 12, 2016 3:05 pm

On Monday, the Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a challenge to the 1977 precedent that permitted union freeloading on the backs of more than 700,000 unwilling government workers. (AP Photo)

High court must stop unions from picking workers’ pockets

Washington Examiner · January 12, 2016 5:01 am

During oral arguments Monday Scalia repeatedly expressed skeptism of the union's position, suggesting he would instead align with the court's other conservatives. (AP File Photo/Jim Mone)

Scalia’s skepticism bad news for unions

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2016 11:29 pm

The case is of major interest to labor unions, for whom the fees are a major source of revenue. (AP photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court questions unions’ worker fees

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2016 5:55 pm

Bernie Sanders envisions an alternative to traditional banking, one shorn of the "greed" of large commercial banks. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Sanders teams up with unions to push post office banking

Sean Higgins · January 10, 2016 5:01 am

For months, U.S. employers have steadily added jobs even as global growth has flagged and financial markets have sunk. The jobs report for December on Friday may provide some hints of whether that trend can endure. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Economy adds 292,000 jobs in December, unemployment ends year at 5 percent

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 1:31 pm

Forced-funding schemes are unnecessary and violate the speech and associational rights of people. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Workers shouldn’t have to check their First Amendment rights at the door

Jared Blanchard · January 8, 2016 5:02 am

"It gives unions a stronger collective bargaining position to advocate for everybody, members and non-members," said Lily Garcia, president of the 3 million-member National Education Association, of which the California union is a member. (AP File Photo)

Supreme Court to examine fairness of mandatory union fees

Sean Higgins · January 8, 2016 5:01 am

Beltway Confidential

Union admits it broke right-to-work law

Jason Russell · January 7, 2016 4:26 pm

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to land at 267,000 for the week that ended Dec. 19, the Labor Department said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jobless claims fall to 277,000 after steep rise to end 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 7, 2016 1:30 pm

The issue of Christmas bonuses touches on one of Puerto Rico's main problems: Its high cost of employment. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Puerto Rico’s Christmas bonus default

Rachel Greszler · January 6, 2016 5:02 am