
Tag: public sector unionism

Michael Hiltzik had a really good piece the other day on Mitch McConnell attempting to bust public sector unions by not bailing out the states and wanting them to create bankruptcy instead. Of course,
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 school systems that empl

Teachers in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and now Arizona are building on the actions by their West Virginia comrades and walking off the job to protest their terrible pay and benefits, but really are protestin
On February 27, the Supreme Court will hear Janus v. AFSCME, the case almost certain to eviscerate public sector unions by proclaiming a national right-to-work for public workers. This is intended to

Hamilton Nolan has an interesting interview with AFSCME president Lee Saunders. Nolan can’t quite get over his Berniebroism in this interview, asking if unions supporting Hillary was a mistake a
When Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans pushed through their draconian anti-public union law, one of the ways they succeeded is to cleave the police and firefighter unions off of the other pub

Thanks to Antonin Scalia dying, public sector unions still have a future in this country. Had he survived, they would have just been gutted in Friedrichs. A case that seemed poised to deal a major blo
With Scalia dead, what does this mean for public sector unionism? A couple of takes from people smarter than I. First, Charlotte Garden: If Abood stands—either because of a 4-4 decision or because a
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