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NJBIA: Latest Independent Contractor Carve-Out Bill Highlights Fatal Flaws of New ABC Test
September 15, 2026 // author for New Jersey Business & Industry Association
The rule, strongly opposed by NJBIA, New Jersey's business community, New Jersey freelancers and legislators from both sides of the aisle, has been paused until Oct. 1 to give NJDOL and lawmakers time to work out any needed statutory changes. But as there are only 16 days left until the rule takes effect and no statutory changes have been made, NJBIA has launched a grassroots campaign to urge Gov. Mikie Sherrill to delay the implementation of the rule until July 1, 2027. Further, Senate President Nicholas Scutari (D-22) has also formally requested the Sherrill administration to pause the rule.
Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum unions vote for strikes
September 15, 2026 // Tessa Solomon for Art News
Meanwhile, the months leading up to today's announcement have been fraught for the Brooklyn Museum unions. Last year, museum leadership reversed plans to lay off more than a dozen workers following a $2.5 million grant from the New York City Council. Citing a widening deficit, the Brooklyn Museum had announced plans to cut more than 10 percent of its staff in February 2025, prompting backlash from the two unions representing museum workers, DC 37 Local 1502 and UAW Local 2110. The unions said the cuts had been announced without attempts to negotiate with their bargaining units.
Hochul accused of ‘hit job’ on behalf of teachers’ unions in act of ‘pure censorship’: labor group
September 15, 2026 // Peter Pinedo for Fox News
"This is an anti-speech law aimed at one kind of speaker," said Withe. He asserted that the New York law was "copied" from a similar measure in Oregon, which the Freedom Foundation is already challenging in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He said his organization will "make the same case here." Fox News Digital spoke with Ryan Walters, former superintendent of Oklahoma public schools and CEO of Freedom Foundation’s education arm, the Teacher Freedom Alliance. Walters called the New York law an example of "pure censorship and targeting of political opponents by Democrats protecting their union bosses."
Government Unions Are Making a Comeback — and Taxpayers Will Pay the Price
September 15, 2026 // David Osborne for National Review
Taken together, those same four unions have added back more than 230,000 members since 2024, the Commonwealth Foundation reports. That’s a 3.5 percent jump, and it has wiped out most of what looked like a permanent decline. Two of the four unions, AFSCME and SEIU, now have more members than they did before Janus. Only one union, the NEA, is still losing members, but even that decline has slowed.
Op-Ed: Brigette Herbst: Congress should Investigate the National Education Association’s charter
September 15, 2026 // Brigette Herbst for Washington Reporter
However, over the past several years, the NEA has supported divisive partisan politics and extremist ideologies. By way of example, the NEA Advocacy Fund, a super PAC, and the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education have directed much of their political spending toward Democratic candidates and aligned political organizations. According to filings, the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education has historically contributed more than 90 percent of its candidate-directed funds to Democrats, while independent expenditures by the NEA Advocacy Fund have similarly supported Democratic candidates and causes — a far cry from “promot[ing] the cause of education in the United States.”
California’s most powerful union boss threatened women, tried to ‘extort’ billionaire tax support: probe
September 15, 2026 // Josh Koehn for California Post
SEIU United Health Workers West President Dave Regan is under investigation for allegedly trying to strong-arm an endorsement from the SEIU’s state council. He is also accused of threatening and intimidating women employed by the council, as well as physically assaulting former SEIU executive Courtni Pugh, who’s now a political consultant leading the effort to stop the billionaire tax. The assault allegedly occurred in 2009.
ALEC Releases 4th Edition of “States That Work” Labor Policy Rankings
September 14, 2026 // author for American Legislative Exchange Council
“States That Work shows that the states giving workers the greatest freedom to earn a living are also creating an environment where businesses and families can thrive,” said report author and ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Director Alan Jernigan. “From protecting Right to Work to removing unnecessary licensing barriers, states have a clear roadmap for expanding opportunity without growing government.”
Opinion: Californians owe $500 billion they never agreed to pay
September 14, 2026 // David Crane for San Francisco Standard
Everything works fine if the pension fund earns at least the expected return. But if not, there won’t be enough money to redeem the pension promises when they come due. Those shortfalls — called “unfunded liabilities” — must be paid, and under California law, taxpayers alone bear that cost. Hence, pension fund boards that owe their highest duty to employees — and none to taxpayers — have an incentive to set high expected rates of return, since doing so minimizes normal cost, the only cost employees share. That incentive produces unfunded liabilities, which are interest-bearing debts.
Banner Health challenges union vote, alleges election was tainted by coercion
September 14, 2026 // author for 12 news
Banner Health is asking federal labor officials to invalidate a recent union election involving physicians, nurse practitioners and other medical staff, alleging the union unlawfully interfered with the vote. According to a motion filed Thursday by Banner Medical Group Inc., the union allegedly promised free legal counsel to employees if they signed union authorization cards. Banner argues the alleged conduct created an atmosphere of coercion and interfered with employees' free choice.
Miami unions knocked on 32,000 doors. This is what Hispanic voters told them
September 14, 2026 // Churchill Ndonwie for Maimi Herald
After knocking on more than 30,000 doors this spring, the unions also found widespread dissatisfaction with immigration enforcement. Unite Here Local 355 and SIEU 32BJ, representing workers from hospitality to maintenance, launched teams throughout Miami between March 21 and June 27. Canvassers completed over 2,381 surveys from Latino working-class voters and found residents are considering leaving Miami due to high debt, declining economic conditions and the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.
Hundreds of Culinary Union workers have joined protests against their own union. Why?
September 14, 2026 // Kate Reynolds, Isabella Aldrete, Howard Stutz, for Nevada Independent
Hundreds of members from Culinary Workers Union Local 226 have been showing up to protests held at the organization's Las Vegas headquarters since late August, criticizing the union's new healthcare policy and the potential structure of an upcoming wage raise. Speeches at the rallies — which organizers have coined the Fair Union Reform Movement 226 — have included broader criticisms, including claims that leadership is dismissive of workers' complaints and that contract negotiations are not transparent.
Boeing offers 10% raise to WA workers to head off union strike
September 14, 2026 // FOX 13 Seattle Digital Team for FOX 13
Boeing has issued its final contract proposal to SPEEA, covering over 16,000 engineers and technical workers. The deal offers an immediate 10% wage hike upon approval, a 4% raise in 2027, and guaranteed 4% minimum annual increases through 2030. SPEEA leadership is advising members to vote "Yes," though the official schedule for the ratification vote is yet to be announced.
Sanders introduces bill to make workweek 32 hours
September 14, 2026 // Nicholas Ballasy for Just the News
Congressman Mark Takano, D-Calif., and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act this week to make the workweek 32 hours.
New Report: Faster Labor Contracts Act Advances Union DEI Agenda Through Politically Appointed Arbitrators
September 13, 2026 // Author for Americans for Limited Government
Americans for Limited Government today released findings in a new exposé, “The Faster Labor Contracts Act: Advancing the Union DEI Agenda”, revealing how a union-backed bill, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, moving through Congress would hand labor bosses a powerful new tool to impose radical diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) mandates, transgender workplace policies, and restrictions on cooperation with immigration enforcement — all without a worker vote. This report is the latest in ALG’s series examining how union leadership continues to push priorities at odds with President Trump’s agenda and the concerns of many rank-and-file workers.
Massachusetts governor’s race ramps up with a policy ‘blueprint’ and police union endorsements
September 13, 2026 // Nik DeCosta-Klipa for WBUR
Healey, meanwhile, got some backup yesterday from a quartet of groups that aren't always rallying behind Democrats: police unions. The Massachusetts State Police Commissioned Officers Association, State Police Association of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition of Police and the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association all endorsed the incumbent governor at an event in Dorchester.
Appeals court strengthens Tennessee labor protections
September 13, 2026 // Cereese Blose for WKRN
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit published a decision on Thursday, Sept. 3, reinforcing the Interboro doctrine and blocking employers in its jurisdiction from using a loophole to legally fire vocal employees.
Largest union of Marion County employees authorizes strike
September 13, 2026 // Bill Poehler for Salem Statesman Journal
The most contentious issue in bargaining has been the county’s contribution to employees’ health insurance payments. The union had initially asked Marion County to contribute 95% toward its employees’ healthcare costs. The union said that three other unions that represent Marion County employees receive the 95% contribution.
National Right to Work Foundation Files Brief in Case to Overturn Anti-Worker Biden-Era Labor Board Decision
September 13, 2026 // author for National Right To Work Foundation
NLRB’s Cemex precedent conflicts with federal law, wrongly promotes abuse-prone ‘card check’ organizing to detriment of employee rights
Third time’s the charm? Colorado Democrats will once again fight to change how workers unionize next session
September 11, 2026 // author for Denver 7
Democratic Colorado lawmakers are confident that their plan to change the way workers unionize in the state will be successful next year, hoping that a new governor leads to a different outcome for the legislation. Dubbed the Worker Protection Act by advocates, two iterations of the concept to eliminate the second vote needed to form a union in Colorado have passed out of the state Legislature and were then vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis in 2025 and 2026
Teamsters president throws down gauntlet to UPS: Strike coming in 2028
September 11, 2026 // Eric Kulisch for Freightwaves
Perhaps, the most unusual strike trigger is a new demand that all four union regions, which are governed by supplements to the national master agreement, be allowed to go on strike mid-contract if the parties remain deadlocked on how to resolve union grievances. "It's going to be a battle and we are probably going to strike UPS. I mean, we have to because they don't respect us. They don't do what they're supposed to do on the obligation of the contract. They fight us on everything," O'Brien said on a recent episode of the "Better Bad Ideas" podcast.