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Op-ed: The 120-day clock that could rewrite your job
October 6, 2026 // Mitch Carmichael for WV News
Workers and employers must remain free and able to bargain for the terms each desire. No free country should dictate to a worker or an employer the terms of a private labor contract The Faster Labor Contracts Act would set a timetable for negotiating a first contract after a union is newly certified or recognized. The parties would meet and begin bargaining within 10 days after the employer receives a written request. If they have no agreement after 90 days of bargaining, either party could request federal mediation.
Alamo Drafthouse workers vote to unionize at the City Foundry in St. Louis
October 6, 2026 // Hannah Wyman for Post-Dispatch
They are asking for more advance scheduling, tip transparency, changes to the new QR code ordering system, more consistent communication from the company and a seat at the table in decisions made by ownership.
Why Do TSA Employees Spend so Much Time on Union Business?
October 6, 2026 // Chip Rogers for Daily Caller
That is why Americans should pay attention to a newly filed Transportation Security Administration record detailing the operational burden of the agency’s 2024 collective bargaining agreement. The federal government is now appealing a court injunction keeping that agreement in force. Americans for Fair Treatment, of which I am CEO, has been fighting this battle for years. Congress never expressly granted collective bargaining rights to TSA screeners. The current union system began with a 2011 decision by Obama-era TSA Administrator John Pistole.
Port Worker Files Brief at U.S. Court of Appeals Defending Labor Board Victory Over Years-Long Union Boss Discrimination
October 5, 2026 // author for National Right to Work Foundation
The case started when Fowler, who worked at the Port of Wilmington in Delaware, filed an unfair labor practice charge at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in August, 2021. Fowler argued that he had been illegally blacklisted by International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) Local 1694 union officials after voicing concerns to the ILA International about work assignment practices after a merger of several ILA locals.
Massachusetts: Brigham and Women’s nurses set date for potential open-ended strike
October 5, 2026 // Marc Fortier, Kaitlin McKinley Becker, Kimberly Bookman
Months after holding the largest health care worker strike in Massachusetts, nurses from Brigham and Women’s Hospital are set to go on an open-ended strike starting Oct. 14, their union announced Friday.
Union members at UVM Health vote to authorize a strike
October 5, 2026 // Pat Bradley for WAMC Northeast Public Radio
More than 3,000 healthcare workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center have authorized a strike.
Ex-Boilermakers union executive sentenced to 16 months in federal racketeering case
October 5, 2026 // Judy L. Thomas for Kansas City Star
Brown pleaded guilty on May 23, 2024, to one count of racketeering conspiracy. In August 2024, seven more former union executives and employees — including Jones, his wife and son — were indicted for conspiracy to commit offenses under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as well as other felonies. They were accused of scheming to steal $20 million in union funds for personal gain. The money went toward salary and benefits for jobs they didn’t show up for, tuition, rent, luxury international travel, meals, vacation payouts and unauthorized loans, the Justice Department said.
Unionization Push for New York Caregivers Faces Early Challenge at Labor Board
October 5, 2026
A bid to organize roughly 190,000 workers in New York's consumer-directed home care program is already drawing opposition, with critics arguing the state's sole fiscal intermediary is not the caregivers' true employer.
Tulane University employees file petition to unionize for better pay and working conditions
October 5, 2026 // MARIE FAZIO for NOLA.com
Staff members at Tulane University told leadership Wednesday that they plan to form a union as they push for better pay and working conditions, following recent unionization efforts by Tulane faculty and librarians. University officials declined to voluntarily recognize the union after several staffers hand delivered a letter to Tulane President Michael Fitts Wednesday afternoon informing him of their intent to unionize. In response, the group filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, kicking off the process of holding a union election.
University of Minnesota grad students’ union sounds alarm over $225M budget cut
October 5, 2026 // Jeff Wagner for CBS News
Worry is starting to build on the University of Minnesota campus. Graduate teachers and researchers fear their jobs and resources could be on the chopping block. The university announced last week that $225 million must be cut from its budget over the next two years. How that will happen remains unclear.
Nearly 1K Duquesne Light Company union workers go on strike
October 3, 2026 // Jess Shannon for WPXI
Tension occurred at facility gates as trucks from Indiana arrived at the property. Duquesne Light brought in out-of-state, non-union workers to fill operational gaps left by striking personnel.
For decades, labor unions had a free pass to spew racial slurs. It just ended
October 2, 2026 // Vinnie Vernuccio for Washington Examiner
Sept. 23, the NLRB closed this loophole and gave workers the full protection they deserve. Employers can now consistently discipline harassing and offensive conduct. Workers across America have been waiting for this day for years. It’s hard to overstate the level of injustice that workers have faced. The NLRB has given unions a green light to use some of the most offensive language imaginable. In one recent unionization campaign, a picketing worker called a colleague a “crack ho” and “queen of the slums,” among other sexist insults. The employer understandably fired the employee for “bullying, cursing at, and defaming a female co-worker.” But the NLRB ordered the employer to rehire the worker who verbally attacked his colleague, saying the language was legally protected.
Foundation Notice Offers Free Legal Aid to New York In-Home Medicaid Caregivers Targeted for Forced Unionization by SEIU
October 2, 2026 // Author for National Right To Work Foundation
The Foundation’s legal notice informs CDPAP personal assistants of their legal rights, which include the right to challenge an effort by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) officials to impose unionization on every assistant currently providing care, often to family members, through the program. The notice encourages caregivers to reach out to the Foundation for additional information about their legal rights and for free legal assistance. “If certified, SEIU would become the exclusive representative of all personal assistants, irrespective of whether they support the union,”
Union members reject tentative contract agreement with Cahokia schools
October 2, 2026 // Teri Maddox for Belleville News-Democrat
Nearly 400 teachers, service workers and secretaries in Cahokia have been working without a contract for about 15 months. Union President Wendy Lochman and Ray Roskos, field service director with Illinois Federation of Teachers, held a news conference on Sept. 23, warning that members were prepared to strike at 7 a.m. Sept. 25 if contract negotiations failed that evening. Roskos filmed a selfie news conference with union negotiators at 11:41 p.m. in a parking lot to announce that an agreement had been reached “in concept,” but it would require “language items” to be worked out with the district’s attorney and a vote by membership.
New Jersey: Kim Kavin: Carveout Chaos Ahead
October 2, 2026 // Kim Kavin for Freelance Busting
Anderson is the founder of Freelancers Against AB5, the leading advocacy group in California that is still trying to figure out how to get that state’s ABC Test law repealed. She is currently a Future of Work Fellow with the Institute for the American Worker in Washington, D.C., an excellent program about labor and employment policy that I completed earlier this year. And, Anderson and I both testified before Congress on this issue in 2023, when her testimony included the following passage, some three years after California’s ABC Test law and a cleanup bill that followed it had gone into effect:
San Juan Unified School District faces unfair labor practice charge over layoffs
October 2, 2026 // Chaewon Chung for Sacremento Bee
The California School Employees Association filed an unfair practice charge last month, alleging that San Juan Unified School District refused to negotiate how the recent layoffs and related staffing changes would affect employees and failed to provide information needed to represent them.
Jim Jordan Hints He May Address College Athlete Unionization with Amendment to Save College Sports Act | Don’t @ Me w/ Dan Dakich
October 1, 2026 // Dan Dakich for fOX nEWS
"I think that's a concern. I think most, college, you know, most college athletes don't really want to unionize. I think most coaches don't want to have to deal with that. I think most universities and athletic departments don't want to have to deal with just one more issue, and it creates a whole new dynamic. And then it then if they're player, then there's tax issues. There's a whole host of things that just aren't necessarily there when we think about college athletics. And so that's a concern that I think some have with the bill. And we're going to take a look at all that when, when we get a chance to deal with the bill in the lame duck session after the election."
EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract
October 1, 2026 // Michael Sainato for The Guardian
Federal workers’ union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissent
California superintendent candidate calls out teachers union, says she’s a ‘real threat’ to ‘socialist agenda’
October 1, 2026 // CJ Womack for Fox News
Conservative California superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that she would not back down from confronting the United Teachers Los Angeles union (UTLA), after a circulated video allegedly showed a union leader calling Shaw a "real threat" and warning that her election "would cause a huge problem for us." Shaw, the president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board, pointed to Los Angeles student achievement scores as she accused UTLA of protecting the education establishment rather than focusing on academic outcomes.
Seattle minimum wage set to increase to $22 in 2027
October 1, 2026 // Aydian Ahmad for FOX 13 Seattle
Seattle's minimum wage is slated for an increase at the beginning of next year, according to an announcement from the city's Office of Labor Standards. On Jan. 1, 2027, the minimum wage for Washington's largest city will take an 84-cent climb, reaching $22.14. Washington state has the highest minimum wage of any other state in the country, which is currently $17.13.