Eight U.S. House Offices File for the Right to Unionize
From today’s New York Times: Aides to eight of the most progressive members of the House filed petitions on Monday to form unions in their offices, the first substantial action…
Colorado Law Hailed As Important Victory For Public Sector Workers
From today’s Guardian Online: Labor unions have been fighting to secure the right to unionize and collectively bargain for more than 250,000 public sector workers at cities, schools, colleges and counties in…
Gov. Polis Pushes Back on Plan for New Public Union Rights in Colorado
From today’s Colorado Public Radio: Gov. Jared Polis opposes a plan from the legislature’s Democratic leaders that could allow hundreds of thousands of public employees to join unions and negotiate…
Colorado Public Sector Workers on the Verge of Winning Right to Unionize
From today’s Jacobin Magazine: he Colorado legislature will soon consider a bill that would establish collective bargaining rights for the hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the state who are…
Gag clauses for CA state workers, public employees violate free speech rights
From today’s Sacramento Bee: Employees at a California tax agency started to suspect something was up when a compliance officer emailed everyone a reminder not talk with the media one…
Chicago Teachers Go On Strike, Capping Years Of Social Justice Activism
From today’s NPR News Online: For the second time in seven years, Chicago Public Schools teachers will be on strike starting Thursday, walking out of class, they say, in the…
State of the Unions: What happened to America’s labor movement?
From today’s New Yorker Magazine: Do you have rights at work? Franklin Delano Roosevelt thought you did. In 1936, while trying to haul America’s economy out of the bog that…
LAUSD teachers union and school district reach tentative deal to end strike
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles teachers are poised to end their first strike in 30 years after union leaders reached a tentative deal Tuesday with the L.A. Unified School District. The Board…
In victory for unions, judge overturns key parts of Trump executive orders
From today’s Washington Post: A federal judge late Friday dealt a victory to federal employees and the unions that represent them, invalidating overnight key provisions of a series of Trump administration…
Supreme Court delivers blow to organized labor in fees dispute
From Reuter’s News Service: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a big blow to organized labor, ruling that non-members cannot be forced in certain states to pay fees to unions…