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US judge leery of blocking FEMA job cuts pending unions’ lawsuit
March 4, 2026 // A federal judge in California on Tuesday said she would likely deny an early bid by unions representing government workers to block President Donald Trump's administration from cutting thousands of disaster-response jobs at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Ct. Employees Sue Unions for Ignoring Financial Disclosure Law
February 27, 2026 // According to the lawsuit, Connecticut unions to which the law applies have not filed the required reports for decades. Meanwhile, the state’s labor commissioner has said that the agency is choosing not to enforce this statute. The plaintiffs, criminal justice professor Earl Ormond and corrections officer Ryan Bilodeau, are asking the court to step in and require their unions to comply with the law. Their lawsuit could affect most of Connecticut’s more than 100,000 public employees.
Unions, nonprofits challenge FEMA staffing cuts in court
January 29, 2026 // Their court challenge filed Tuesday evening alleges DHS and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are breaking the law by directing the termination of hundreds of FEMA employees. The complaint alleges those actions violate the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, which gave FEMA more autonomy and restricts the DHS secretary’s ability to make sweeping overhauls and staff reductions at the emergency management agency.
House passes bill to restore collective bargaining for federal employees
December 15, 2025 // “The president has been fighting back against the deals that public sector unions have negotiated for themselves, at the expense of the American taxpayer, by invoking an existing legal authority,” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Oversight committee. “[This bill] directly threatens that progress by overturning the president’s executive order that exercises one of the few tools available to him under the law to more effectively manage the federal workforce.”
Wonderful vows to fight pro-union ‘card check’ law after court rules lawsuit improper
December 9, 2025 // Cooper said the decision does not explicitly address the merits of Wonderful Nurseries constitutional challenge, which a lower court has already concluded has merit, he said. Also, the decision does not interfere with a separate lawsuit filed in federal court by nearly two dozen workers represented by the Right to Work Foundation, he said. “And nothing in the ruling prevents the Superior Court from deciding that the Card Check law indeed violates the California and federal Constitutions, a decision we look forward to,” he said.
Unions spend big on politics — often at the expense of their members
December 2, 2025 // “When I signed my union membership card, I did not check the back saying I wanted to contribute to the union political action committee,” writes Marie Dupont, a teacher and NJEA member, in The Wall Street Journal. “That was a contract stating my dues wouldn’t go to the union political apparatus, but a handful of insiders ignored that choice and broke that trust.” NJEA funneled general funds through Garden State Forward, Working New Jersey, and Protecting Our Democracy — all election-focused organizations that not only backed Spiller but also were headed by the NJEA president. These questionable activities landed NJEA in court with a lawsuit alleging that the union misled its members, including Dupont, who is a lead plaintiff.
Judge Grants Amazon Request to Block New York Labor Board Law
December 1, 2025 // Amazon won a court order temporarily blocking enforcement of New York’s statute attempting to claim jurisdiction over private-sector union disputes, which the retailer argues is preempted by federal labor law. The state law likely runs afoul of the National Labor Relations Act and should be enjoined while the legal challenge against it proceeds, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York found.
California court drops Wonderful Co. lawsuit against farmworker unionization efforts
December 1, 2025 // Craig Cooper, general counsel of The Wonderful Company, said in a statement on Tuesday the court ruling doesn’t prevent the Superior Court from finding the card check law to be unconstitutional, which is a decision that Wonderful “(looks) forward to.” “The decision explicitly does not address the merits of Wonderful Nurseries’ constitutional challenge, which a lower court has already concluded has merit, and does not in any way interfere with the lawsuit that two dozen Wonderful Nurseries employees have brought challenging the legality of this forced unionization scheme,” Cooper said in the statement.
National Right to Work Foundation Sues UCLA Over Public Records Request for Union “Strategic Research” Workshops
November 20, 2025 // Both events about which the Foundation requested information dealt with so-called “strategic research,” a tactic that “prioritizes gathering targeted information” to find new businesses and workers on which to launch unionization campaigns or other campaigns. The events, titled the “UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference” and “Private Equity Research Strategies,” both had heavy political overtones as well, with the former drawing attendees “working outside labor in adjacent social movements, like climate change, food justice and housing,” according to UCLA’s website. Both gatherings took place between April and August of 2024.
Revived Lawsuit Could Hold Teamsters Accountable for Yellow Trucking’s Bankruptcy
November 17, 2025 // Teamsters President Sean O’Brien called Yellow’s CEO a “greedy piece of sh*t,” and spent the company’s last days sending him insulting and childish text messages – even though the jobs of 22,000 Teamsters hung in the balance.