Tag: Labor

Average annual membership in non-right-to-work states are substantially higher. (iStock Photo)

Unions charge members less in right-to-work states

Sean Higgins · January 27, 2015 5:32 pm

President Obama speaks during a visit to the University of Kansas Thursday in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Obama’s immigration action carries limited economic appeal

Brian Hughes · January 27, 2015 10:00 am

On campaign trail, Scott Walker downplays union battles

Sean Higgins · January 27, 2015 10:00 am

(iStock)

Dems urge labor board to ‘vigorously defend’ new union election rules

Sean Higgins · January 26, 2015 11:04 pm

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said the bill is needed to help government employees take paid time off for parenting or caring for a sick relative. (AP/Mel Evans)

Democrats push Obama’s vision with paid leave bill

Susan Ferrechio · January 26, 2015 9:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Study: 60 percent of 2014 job growth caused by expiration of unemployment benefits

Jason Russell · January 26, 2015 6:26 pm

A new study attributes the 2014 jobs boom to the expiration of long-term unemployment benefits in late December 2013. (iStock)

End of emergency unemployment insurance boosted 2014 job growth

Joseph Lawler · January 26, 2015 5:59 pm

Employee Shantel Burris prepares patient meals at Montefiore Medical Center's Wakefield Campus in the Bronx borough of New York. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

A closer look at sick leave

Sean Higgins · January 26, 2015 10:00 am

(iStock)

Kentucky counties look at right-to-work

Sean Higgins · January 24, 2015 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

States with fewer union members are growing faster

Jason Russell · January 23, 2015 9:46 pm

Beltway Confidential

Union membership on the decline

Jason Russell · January 23, 2015 5:53 pm

Union membership continues three-decade slide

Sean Higgins · January 23, 2015 5:31 pm