Posts tagged labor union
Walberg Presses Union Chapter on Hiring of Child Molester
September 23, 2025 // Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) sent a letter to the president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87, Olga Miranda, demanding information on its hiring practices after reports that the chapter employed convicted child molester Noelia Linares. SEIU’s website highlights that it is the second largest union of public service employees with more than 1 million local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers. This letter comes after the SEIU national office failed to provide an adequate response to a June letter demanding answers regarding both local and national procedures and policies for the union’s hiring of registered sex offenders. Instead, SEIU’s response left it to SEIU locals to defend their own actions.
Commentary: The Flight of the Unions from the DNC
June 18, 2025 // Only a few short months ago, Weingarten and Saunders both enjoyed plum speaking spots on the stage at the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating convention. There, along with ridiculous figures like the National Education Association’s Becky Pringle, these labor officials presented a united front against Donald Trump’s GOP. Today, they are defenestrated — either by their own hands or Martin’s. Why?
Screaming For Subsidies: Unions Throw Public Tantrum Outside Governor’s Mansion
June 18, 2025 // Yet the day’s events turned hostile when union protesters vandalized a mobile billboard truck commissioned by Yankee Institute. The vehicle displayed messages urging Gov. Lamont to veto S.B. 8.
Trump pardons Lindenhurst labor union leader on eve of sentencing for failing to report gifts
May 29, 2025 // A labor union leader who pleaded guilty to failing to report gifts from an advertising firm was pardoned by President Donald Trump on the eve of his sentencing hearing Wednesday, court records show. James Callahan, of Lindenhurst, was general president of the International Union of Operating Engineers when he accepted — but failed to properly report — receiving at least $315,000 in tickets to sporting events and concerts and other amenities from a company that the union used to place ads.
Do More Powerful Unions Generate Better Pro-Worker Outcomes?
May 15, 2025 // Unionization is generally associated with higher wages for lower-skilled unionized workers.[37] However, when unionized sectors set higher wages, excess workers shift to nonunionized sectors, increasing the labor supply and lowering wages for lower-skilled nonunion workers.
Players at the CFP Championship Are Talking About Unionizing
January 22, 2025 // Several miles away, in a ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead, there was a different sort of event: About 50 current and former players came together for a two-day summit—called the “College Football Players-Only Meeting”—to discuss college athlete organizing efforts. It was the latest in a growing number of organizing efforts across the college sports landscape, and is believed to be the first of its kind to take place at the College Football Playoff. The event was hosted by an advocacy group called Athletes.org, founded by former INFLCR CEO Jim Cavale, which hopes to one day become the main college athlete players association.
Is It Really About Employee Voices? The National Labor Relations Board Continues its Union-Friendly Trend
August 7, 2024 // The new regulations also contain a revision that will affect construction companies. Under the NLRA, an employer cannot recognize and bargain with a union lest the union has demonstrated that it represents a majority of the employees (through cards or an election, as noted above). Section 8(f) of the NLRA provides a limited exception to this rule, and it applies solely to the construction industry. Under Section 8(f), a construction industry employer can enter into a "pre-hire" agreement with a union and negotiate employment terms regardless of whether the employees support the union. Prior to 2020, the Board allowed an employer and union to convert an "8(f) agreement" into a normal collective bargaining agreement simply by stating that the union had demonstrated majority support to the employer. That language was sufficient to block a decertification petition or petition from a rival union during the so-called "contract bar" period (the term of the labor agreement, up to three years). No evidence would be examined to attack the contract language – this provision was enough.
Former Local 98 President Brian Burrows Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Embezzlement of Union Funds, Filing False Government Reports, and Tax Fraud
June 28, 2024 // United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Brian Burrows, 64, of Mount Laurel, NJ, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl to 48 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, forfeiture of $135,689.11, an $1,800 special assessment, and restitution to be determined later, for crimes arising from his embezzlement of funds belonging to Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (“Local 98”). Burrows had served as the President of Local 98 since 2008. The only person who held a higher office in the union was his codefendant, Business Manager John Dougherty.
SPLC’s Mass Layoff Aimed to Destroy Labor Union: Expert
June 18, 2024 // The SPLC announced in a statement that it made this “difficult but necessary decision” exclusively to better “strengthen our ability to advance a multiracial, inclusive democracy.” But the union and one of the foremost conservative experts on the organization say SPLC’s HR department may have wanted to crack down on the union. The list of employees let go this week included five union activists and the union chair, according to the union. SPLC brass “seems particularly to have targeted union members,” said Tyler O’Neil, managing editor of The Daily Signal and author of the book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Thursday. “Are they cracking down on the union?”
COMMENTARY The Dark Side of Big Labor: How SEIU Is Exploiting Border Crisis
June 7, 2024 // To encourage these green card holders to “take the brave step and become citizens,” SEIU announced in the email that it would work to naturalize immigrants ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election through the union’s annual Virtual U.S. Citizenship Workshop.