Teacher Union Case Carries Employee Rights to Supreme Court
Monday of next week (January 11) marks a major milestone in the effort to bring employee rights in the workplace…
California Students Find New Way to Battle Teachers Unions
This week, teachers unions’ cushy status quo suffered a major setback, in California of all places. That’s odd in part…
Feds Continue Labor Favors
This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — now legally constituted and still very union-friendly — reaffirmed its “quickie…
Big Labor’s Expanding Battleground: Corporate Boardrooms
Big Labor is always trying to weasel its way into policymaking through backdoor channels. From pressuring Democrats into changing U.S. Senate rules to…
Newsflash: Benefits of Union Membership Declining by the Year
Unions have always turned to the same trump card when trying to convince employees to unionize: Unions members make more…
Union Corruption Roundup
New York Times: Powerful Leader of Mexican Teachers’ Union Is ArrestedElba Esther Gordillo, also known as “La Maestra,” stands accused…
Union Corruption Roundup: Academy Awards Edition
On the Waterfront: Terminal operator sues longshoremen’s union for racketeering The Newark Star-Ledger reports that American Stevedoring, a former operator of shipping terminals…
News Roundup: 2-22-13
Wall Street Journal: Business, Labor Groups Find Little Accord on Immigration The agreement involves “guiding principles” that both sides have agreed…
It’s Official: Doing Union Work On The Job Takes Time
As The Washington Examiner reports, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has finished calculating the time and costs of federal union “official time” for fiscal…
News Roundup: More Labor Pushback In the States
The Olympian: No collective bargaining for state worker health care under Tom billA Democrat legislator has proposed adding a special wellness…