Many of you have some familiarity with Joseph McCartin's superb book on the PATCO strike, which in 1981 led to Reagan firing the air traffic controllers. One of the points.
Harold Meyerson on Trump's outright war on public sector unions: In 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order giving collective-bargaining rights to federal employees, though they were not.
On August 16, 1937, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to National Federation of Federal Employees head Luther Steward of his ambivalence over public sector unionism. Conservatives have often cited that.
On July 31, 1835, workers at the Washington Naval Yard went on strike over the ten-hour day and recent moves to limit their lunch privileges. This was the first serious.
On May 23, 1977, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Abood v. Detroit County Board of Education, upholding public sector unions collecting union dues from non-members for purposes of.
When Republicans won control over all branches of government in Iowa, they passed one of the strongest anti-union laws in the country. Not only did the state go right-to-work, which.
I mean, I don't want to get my hopes up that something good happens, but hey.... Teachers in Virginia may soon gain the right to collectively bargain with the public.
Republicans are moving step by step closer to their long-term goal of declaring unions illegal. They are getting more brazen about it too. Fresh off the Alaska shitshow to destroy.
