Not that I have a lot of faith, or any for that matter, in the courts, but still, you like to see this: The Department of Veterans Affairs is restoring labor contracts with several of its unions, after a federal judge said the department was...
public sector unionism
Following Governor Ron DeSantis' higher education reform proposal, recently appointed New College of Florida trustee Christopher Rufo speaks about changes that need to be made at the state-run liberal arts.
What Mamdani does with New York's public sector unions will be an interesting test of his administration style. He's pro-worker, but any mayor inherently has to juggle a lot of.
This is certainly an interesting development: A bipartisan bill that would end the Trump administration’s rollback of collective bargaining rights for most federal employees is guaranteed to get a full House vote, now that a majority of lawmakers support it. As of Monday, 218 House...
Donald Trump's pro-worker agenda is leading to him unilaterally stripping collective bargaining rights from government agencies. That includes the Environmental Protection Agency, using national security grounds to justify it. Now,.
Turns out Mr. Man of the Working Class Donald Trump does not in fact like unions. Who could have known? He's going to war on federal worker unions and their.
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 of that book though is contributing to a literature around the militancy of public sector...
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.
Big news out of Wisconsin, as a judge overturns Scott Walker's unionbusting legacy A Dane County judge on Monday sent ripples through Wisconsin's political landscape, overturning a 13-year-old law that.
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 as outright opposition by FDR to public sector unionism, but they are blowing this single...
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.
The old union hiring hall was hated by employers, but did good work in getting people to the jobs. Today, we are in a nation where there are good jobs.