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…
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Trump Changes Executive Regulations to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers
From today’s New York Times: Seizing on a longtime ambition of many Republicans, President Trump on Friday overhauled rules affecting at least two million federal workers, making it easier to…
Striking teachers in Arizona win 19 percent raise and end walkout
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Arizona governor signed a plan Thursday to give striking teachers a 19% pay raise, ending their five-day walkout after a dramatic all-night legislative session…
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Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class
From today’s New York Times: The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding…
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Without no pay raise in years, Oklahoma Teachers Could Be the Next to Walk
From today’s New York Times: When she woke up one morning last week, Tiffany Bell, a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School here, had $35 in her bank account. On take-home…
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Striking teachers descend on West Virginia’s Capitol to demand pay raises
From ABC News: Thousands of striking teachers descended on the West Virginia Capitol on Monday, forcing officials to briefly cut off access to the building six days after Gov. Jim…
SCOTUS Hears Fiery Arguments In Case That Could Gut Public Sector Unions
From NPR News: The Supreme Court heard fiery arguments Monday in a case that could remove a key revenue stream for public sector unions. A sharply divided court could be…
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SCOTUS conservatives set to strike down union fees on free-speech grounds
From today’s LA Times: Paying union dues and baking a wedding cake may not seem like classic examples of free speech—except perhaps at the Supreme Court. This year, the high…
Cal State Faculty Unions protest Chancellor Tim White’s campus visits, prepare themselves for strike
Hundreds of thousands of Cal State students will not have to worry about their professors going out on strike after the union representing faculty members failed to authorize a work…
Does Tenure Protect Bad Teachers or Good Schools?
From today’s NYT “Room for Debate”: Teacher tenure laws deprive public school students of their right to an education by making it difficult to remove bad teachers, a California judge…