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Hotel and stadium workers can refuse work if ICE is present, union says as World Cup approaches
March 25, 2026 // author for ABC 7
The union is urging hotels, stadiums and other venues not to host or provide staging areas for ICE or Border Patrol during what it calls a period of heightened public attention. If employers choose to allow federal agents on site, the union is requesting advance notice and confirmation that workers will be permitted to leave or refuse the assignment without facing disciplinary action.
Findlay Freudenberg union workers on strike
March 25, 2026 // AVA THOMAN for Review Times
UAW Local 1327 members left the facility, at 555 Marathon Blvd., and stood with signs reading “UAW on strike,” said Michael Willer, UAW Local 1327 Freudenberg Chair. “We've been going through contract negotiations, and we hit a stall point and we walked out at 11 a.m. today for our strike,” Willer said.
Why the Building Construction Unions Love Data Centers
March 25, 2026 // author for Committee to Unleash Prosperity
There’s a building boom going on in America – but it isn’t so much housing or office buildings. It’s data centers. This explains why even though liberals are rebelling against data centers, union workers love the high-paying jobs they create. Here’s a construction industry milestone
Minnesota Small Businesses Challenge Independent Contractor Statute
March 25, 2026 // author for NFIB
NFIB joined a coalition of business organizations in filing a lawsuit in Minnesota state court challenging the new independent contractor test that was passed in 2024 as part of the Jumbo Omnibus Bill, H.F. 5247. The statute enacts a rigorous fourteen-factor test for determining the classification of independent contractors and imposes extreme financial and criminal penalties for even well-meaning small businesses should they fail to comply. J&M Consulting
Florida Leads Again on Public Unions
March 25, 2026 // Editorial Board for Wall Street Journal Opinion
That’s hardly a vote of confidence from Ms. Weingarten of the value her union provides to its members. Under the proposed regime, a union could be recertified by winning a simple majority of half of the voting union members, or a bit over 25% of the bargaining unit. Do labor leaders really think they can’t rustle up a quarter of their members to ensure the union preserves its role in representing workers? The latest bill follows 2023 legislation that triggered a decertification vote when less than 60% of the employees eligible for representation in a bargaining unit are paying membership dues. That legislation also ended the state’s power to deduct dues from public-employee paychecks.
Largest federal workers union warns ICE agents are not trained to replace TSA and putting them in airports ‘does not fill a gap. It creates one’
March 24, 2026 // Sasha Rogelberg for Fortune
TSA officers’ call-out rates reached their highest level of the shutdown on Sunday, with 11.76% of workers, or more than 3,450 employees, not showing up to work, DHS data showed. That included about 40% of TSA officers from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to DHS data.
States Lead the Way on Portable Benefits and Flexible Work
March 24, 2026 // Austen Bannen for Americans for Prosperity
The momentum behind portable benefits reflects the strength of a growing network of organizations and leaders committed to modernizing workforce policy. Americans for Prosperity has worked in conjunction with a diverse range of state and national organizations including the Mercatus Center, Libertas Institute, Institute for the American Worker, Independent Women, R Street Institute, and more from state to state. With research, data, examples of those who would benefit, and a dose of optimism, the educational outreach to highlight how beneficial these reforms are to American families has created a surge of interest among state lawmakers who increasingly understand this golden opportunity to help their residents thrive in today’s economy including shifts due to the rise of AI and other technology.
Spring Hill Wells Fargo Staff Set To Vote On Ousting Union Following ‘Broken Promises’
March 24, 2026 // Brian Burns for Tampa Free Press
The federal agency has scheduled a “decertification” election for Monday, March 30, which will determine whether the union loses its authority to represent the branch’s employees. The push for the vote was led by employee Virginia Fenton, who received legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation to navigate the filing process. The move comes after Fenton successfully gathered enough signatures from her colleagues to meet the federal threshold required to trigger a secret-ballot election.
Non-tenured faculty members at New York University go on strike
March 24, 2026 // Eyewitness News for WABC
"Classes will continue today. We are committed to maintaining our students' academic progress during this strike. Substitute instructors and/or alternative plans are in place for every section affected.
Injunction Against Further Leafletting by Union Organizer at CEO’s Front Door
March 24, 2026 // Eugene Volokh for Reason
A New Mexico court upholds it, rejecting a First Amendment defense.
Staten Island Hospital Showdown: Nurses Threaten To Walk Over Pay And Staffing
March 24, 2026 // Reid Carlisle for Hoodline New York
The showdown follows a wave of union activity earlier this year that threatened or triggered large walkouts at multiple private hospitals, a campaign that potentially involved up to 20,000 nurses. Those citywide actions nudged major hospital systems back to the bargaining table and pushed staffing and pay to the center of local health care politics.
United Auto Workers units finalize agreements with UC, avoid strike
March 24, 2026 // Delilah Brumer for The Daily Bruin
The three units – UAW Local 4811’s academic student employees unit, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW – represent more than 40,000 UC academic and research employees, including teaching assistants. The ratification marks SSAP-UAW and RPSP-UAW’s first contracts with the University, while UAW Local 4811’s previous contract expired Feb. 28. About 89% of academic student employees across the UC – and 85% at UCLA – voted to ratify the contract, as well as 98% of RPSPs and 99% of SSAPs, according to an email sent to UAW Local 4811 members.
PHILADELPHIA: Prosecutors in District Attorney Larry Krasner’s Office move to unionize
March 24, 2026 // Anna Orso, Ellie Rushing for Philadelphia Inquirer
In addition to the ADAs, more than 100 paralegals and victim witness coordinators in the office are also seeking to unionize, according to people familiar with the plans, though it was not immediately clear which union would represent them. The unionization effort could represent a major shift in the culture at the district attorney’s office, where prosecutors make up a significant portion of the 600-person staff. It could also be a flashpoint for Krasner, a three-term progressive Democrat who has cast himself as a supporter of organized labor.
Faculty, Grad Workers Left Out of Virginia’s Collective Bargaining Expansion
March 24, 2026 // Ryan Quinn for Inside Higher Ed
There’s a big caveat to SB 378, though. The bill exempts several categories of public workers from collective bargaining rights, including judicial branch employees, General Assembly staff and public college and university workers, “except for service employees.” That means faculty and graduate student workers at state institutions will continue to lack the right to form officially recognized unions that colleges and universities must negotiate with.
BIW union on strike after failed contract negotiations
March 24, 2026 // WGME Staff for WGME
Six weeks ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited BIW, encouraging workers to build warships as fast as they can. Some of those workers are now on strike. Members of the Bath Marine Draftsmen Association voted on Sunday to reject the proposed “best and final offer” from General Dynamics and BIW. The strike of more than 600 workers would also extend beyond BIW to other General Dynamics locations across the world.
Tentative agreement ends Twin Rivers teachers strike
March 24, 2026 // Roxanne Elias for ABC 10
The two-year agreement includes fully paid family health care benefits under the Kaiser HMO plan, a change educators say will ease significant financial strain. “And it's retro pay, so our retirees are going to benefit from that as well. They'll get to retire with fully paid healthcare.
Kaiser Permanente Nurses Ratify Contracts After Year of Strikes
March 24, 2026 // author for Pasadena Now
Agreements covering 31,000 health care professionals take effect at Pasadena-headquartered health system
IBEW Union Bigwig James Burke Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Union Funds
March 23, 2026 // Author for National Institute for Labor Relations Research
James Burke, Financial Secretary of IBEW Local 549, has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $40k from union funds.
WNBA, union sign new CBA that will run through the 2032 season
March 23, 2026 // Ryan Young for Yahoo
After more than a year of negotiations, the two sides reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday morning. As part of that agreement, the WNBA’s salary cap will jump from $1.5 million to $7 million next season.
Op-ed: Chicago’s Minimum-Wage Retreat
March 23, 2026 // Michael Saltsman for Wall Street Journal
Chicago’s distressed dining scene—recently described as “on the brink of collapse”—was bolstered by good news last week, as the City Council voted to halt future increases in the minimum wage for servers and bartenders. This is a setback for progressive Mayor Brandon Johnson, who counts the wage hike as one of his administration’s few accomplishments. But it’s good news for Chicagoans. Chicago’s wage woes date to 2023, when Mr. Johnson made raising the tipped minimum wage an early priority after being elected. It was an unusual choice: Servers and bartenders already earn more than minimum wage, especially in Chicago, where a typical restaurant worker reportedly earns nearly $30 an hour between the lower base wage and tips.