After 30 days on strike, GM-UAW talks suddenly face a deadline
From today’s Detroit Free Press: The clock is ticking for General Motors executives to reach a proposed tentative agreement with the UAW, people close to the talks said Tuesday. 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…
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Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
From today’s New York Times: The United States is the only advanced industrial nation that doesn’t have national laws guaranteeing paid maternity leave. It is also the only advanced economy…
Trump won key union workers in 2016. Will Scalia as labor secretary change that for 2020?
From PBS Newshour Online: To critics, the nomination of a labor secretary who built his career fighting unions underscores a President Donald Trump’s attacks against organized labor. But for Trump,…
Can Courts Strike Down Right-to-Work?
From The American Prospect: Last week, in a move that’s as likely to baffle union activists as it is to encourage them, a West Virginia judge struck down key portions…
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…
Missouri voters blocked the state’s ‘right-to-work’ law in perhaps the biggest electoral stunner of the night
From today’s Business Insider: Missouri voters on Tuesday struck down a right-to-work law by a resounding margin, representing a huge victory to the organized labor movement and a decisive blow…
Disneyland reaches a tentative contract settlement with workers, ending a heated battle that lasted months
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Walt Disney Co. reached a tentative settlement Monday with four unions at the Disneyland Resort, putting an end to a contentious dispute that attracted the…
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…