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Powerful teachers’ unions share striking link with states struggling to teach kids to read
September 19, 2026 // Robert Schmad for Fox News
Eight of the ten states to score among the worst in the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) assessment of early-literacy policies were home to powerful teachers' unions. Among the top 60% of states in terms of early-literacy policy scores, only four had strong teachers' unions. Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and Indiana, all Republican leaning states with weak unions, were among the states with the best literacy outcomes. Maine, New York, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington and Rhode Island, blue states, were among the worst.
Wisconsin Employee Files Class Action Lawsuit to Defend Wisconsin State Law That Guarantees Workplace Freedom
September 18, 2026 // author for National Right To Work Foundation
Suit: Outdated federal precedents wrongfully permit union officials to block workers from stopping union dues payments
California health clinics accuse influential union and its leader of racketeering in civil lawsuit
September 18, 2026 // Taryn Luna for Los Angeles Times
The California Primary Care Assn. and five clinics filed a civil lawsuit in federal court Friday accusing SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West and its president, Dave Regan, of racketeering and using ballot initiatives to “shake down” community health centers. The association alleges that Regan and his union orchestrated a “multi-year campaign of coercion, threats, and economic pressure” to “extort” what the lawsuit describes as “valuable property rights” and “labor-organizing terms” from CPCA and the health centers the association represents in California, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Times.
Union workers at Seattle Hilton reach deal to end 85-day strike
September 17, 2026 // Noor Adatia for Hotel Dive
The new contract comes as rising operational costs, including labor, continue to impact the hotel industry. Hotel owners and operators have previously expressed concerns about how rising wages might affect total revenue and hotel profitability. In New York City in May, union members of the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council ratified a new contract with the Hotel Association of New York, averting strikes ahead of the World Cup.
Proposition 44 pits California clinics against union known for ballot battles
September 17, 2026 // Ben Paviour for The Sacramento Bee
While SEIU-UHW insists it will put resources behind the measure, the union hasn’t invested any major funds in Prop. 44 since May, instead funneling its dollars to support the billionaire tax. Opponents of the measure, meanwhile, had $32 million in cash on hand as of the end of June and have continued to raise money since then. The proposition is one of the least popular of the 14 statewide measures on this year’s ballot, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released Tuesday. Just 34% of the 1,745 California adults surveyed said they backed it.
Duval teachers union faces fight for survival after missing 60% membership threshold
September 17, 2026 // Deja Mayfield for Fox News
The union recruited more than 640 new members between July 30 and September 9 in an effort to reach the threshold. Despite that push, the union did not secure enough members to avoid an election. Now, union leaders are focused on making sure enough employees participate in the vote to preserve DTU as the collective bargaining agent for Duval County Public Schools employees. Sep 16 Duval teachers union faces fight for survival after missing 60% membership threshold.
New York’s union bosses just invented a new way to silence their critics
September 17, 2026 // Jay Rogers for Washington Examiner
But read past the press release and you find the real target: the state attorney general now has subpoena power and can seek $1,000 per violation against any person or group, in state or out, whose mailers about a worker's right to leave a union get labeled "impersonation." Unions get their own private right to sue on top of that. I've spent three decades in regulated finance, and I know what an uncapped $1,000-per-item liability schedule does to an organization's willingness to speak. It doesn't punish fraud. It punishes volume.
Falcons star Kyle Pitts Sr predicts CFB players will unionize, says pro players returning to school is ‘crazy’
September 17, 2026 // Ryan Canfield for Outkick
LSU may have backed down on its quest to add professional athletes to its roster, but the conversation is still raging on. Atlanta Falcons star tight end Kyle Pitts Sr. said he thought the concept of athletes returning to college football after participating in training camps is "crazy" and predicted college football players will unionize. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom. "I do think it's crazy, but I also think it's something that it's gonna happen," Pitts told OutKick in a recent interview.
KATU Photojournalist Hits IATSE Union, Station with Federal Labor Board Charges after Being Illegally Fired
September 17, 2026 // Author for National Right to Work Foundation
Union officials and complicit management illegally demand photographer join union and authorize dues deductions, then had him fired when he refused
Union workers accuse N.J. mayor of targeting members in wave of layoffs
September 17, 2026
“We cannot spend what we do not have or continue practices that our finances cannot sustain,” Hyatt said. “We must make difficult choices today to protect the financial health of our Township tomorrow.” Hyatt submitted a 2026 layoff plan to the New Jersey Civil Service Commission, with notifications posted in municipal buildings and township departments.
Blue states with strong teachers’ unions have lower student literacy levels: study shows
September 17, 2026 // Alex Oliveira for New York Post
And Canter’s study found one overwhelming and shocking throughline — the stronger the state’s teachers’ union the worse its student literacy scores were, results which did not exclusively follow party lines but strongly trended that way and often to the detriment of Democrats. “Democrats, however, don’t often ask me how to replicate Mississippi’s success,” Canter said. “They ask if it’s possible at all, given the power of teachers’ unions in their home states.” One reason for the disparity, Canter argued, is that states where teacher unions have a strong grip are slower to enact better programs.
Workers Challenge NLRB Policy Permitting Employers and Union Bosses to Coerce Dues Payments Even in Absence of Union Contract
September 16, 2026 // author for National Right To Work Foundation
In Washington State, Brittani Butler and four other employees at Holaday-Parks, Inc. resigned from their membership in SMART Local 55 and revoked their check-off authorization after the previous union contract had expired. Despite the requests, Local 55 continued collecting dues from their paychecks and failed to respond to any requests from her or her coworkers. Butler intends to challenge the validity of Frito-Lay’s limitations on employees’ right to cut off dues payments when no union contract exists. In a similar case, Cypress Meadowlark, an employee at Wayne Sanderson Farms in Hammond, Louisiana, also resigned her membership in UFCW Local 455 and revoked her check-off authorization
14,000 Security Guards for Major Tech Companies Plan to Strike
September 16, 2026 // Ella Jackson for KQED
The security officers marched through downtown San Francisco on Tuesday, passing by the Dreamforce Conference, an annual tech gathering hosted by software giant Salesforce. Many tech employees, as well as leaders of the companies that the security guards protect, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, will attend Dreamforce.
DW Opinion: The WNBPA Doesn’t Know Who It Represents
September 16, 2026 // Aaron Withe for Daily Wire
Has the union requested or negotiated protections concerning sex-based eligibility? What would the union do if a player believed she had lost a roster spot, contract, playing time, or another employment opportunity because the league’s eligibility rules permitted a male athlete to compete in the women’s category? What specific protections has the union established to defend the integrity of the female competitive category? These shouldn’t be trick questions. They are fundamental to the union’s presumed reason for being.
Nurses at Olympia Fields Hospital in Chicago’s south suburbs strike against Prime Healthcare
September 16, 2026 // Lauren Victory for CBS News
A Prime Healthcare spokesperson also said the strike and pickets on Tuesday will not disrupt patient care. Nurses at hospitals in Nevada and California were also set to hold sympathy strikes to support the one happening in Olympia Fields. In total, nearly 3,000 hospital workers were on strike or picketing Tuesday.
DOJ Security Guard Union Forced to Pay Back Years of Illegal Union Dues to Avoid Labor Board Prosecution
September 16, 2026 // Author for National Right to Work Foundation
Under settlement, other Paragon DOJ security guards denied required information can claim refunds for years of union dues payments
Educators union sues California, alleging billions missing from public school funding
September 16, 2026 // Bob Egelko for San Francisco Chronicle
Facing their own statewide budget deficits, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators "deliberately underfunded the schools" by $1.9 billion in 2024-25 and by $3.9 billion in 2025-26, the California Teachers Association said in a suit in Sacramento County Superior Court. It was filed against Newsom's finance director, Joe Stephenshaw, and several defendants who were unnamed but clearly included the governor.
New York’s LOADinG Act: Protecting Public-Sector Jobs from AI
September 16, 2026 // Sean Speer for Manhattan Institute
New York’s Legislative Oversight of Automated Decision-Making in Government Act, commonly known as the LOADinG Act, provides an early and revealing example of this tension.[1] Introduced as a framework for governing the use of automated decision-making systems in state government, it paired AI accountability and transparency requirements with extensive employment protections for public-sector workers. As enacted, it prohibited state agencies from using automated systems in ways that displace employees, transfer duties performed by workers, reduce compensation, or alter certain workplace arrangements. Those prohibitions now bind most of the state’s public employers, and the accountability requirements have since been repealed.
NLRB official says Stanford residential advisers can unionize
September 16, 2026 // Daniel Wiessner for Reuters
A National Labor Relations Board official has ruled that student residential advisers at Stanford University are the school's employees and can vote on whether to join a union, teeing up review by the board on the novel issue. Regional Director Christy Kwon in Oakland said in the decision, opens new tab released on Saturday that more than 430 "residential student leaders" perform services under the control of Stanford for which they are compensated, making them employees under federal labor law.
150 Allina Health doctors start four-day strike after contract negotiations fail
September 15, 2026 // Maria Lisignoli, Jason Rantala for CBS News
Allina is also in the midst of a hospice nurses strike that began Friday and will last through the week. Sutter Health, a California-based health nonprofit, says it is planning to acquire Allina Health in a deal that was announced in March.