Posts tagged lawsuit
State Health Dept. Sued Over Forced Unionizing of Michigan Home Caregivers
October 19, 2026 // The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s effort to classify home caregivers as state employees for union representation. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the Michigan Constitution’s rules governing state employment and invalidate the election that certified SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the bargaining representative for home caregivers. The foundation represents James “Jase” Bolger, a former member of the Michigan Civil Service Commission. Bolger brings the lawsuit as a citizen, as the Michigan Constitution allows any citizen to sue to enforce its civil service provisions.
Commentary: Idaho teachers union budget mess is its own fault – will members demand accountability?
October 16, 2026 // During the debate, lawmakers and the public were told taxpayers weren’t subsidizing the union. Now the IEA is cutting staff and closing offices — and it says HB 516 is one of the reasons its operating environment has become more difficult. Six months ago, I wrote in these pages that Idaho hadn't banned unions. It had simply stopped doing their paperwork. Teachers remained free to join a union. Unions remained free to advocate for their members. Collective bargaining remained legal.
EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract
October 1, 2026 // Federal workers’ union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissent
New York’s union bosses just invented a new way to silence their critics
September 17, 2026 // 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.
Educators union sues California, alleging billions missing from public school funding
September 16, 2026 // 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.
Chicago Teachers Union sues Illinois Policy Institute, citing ‘toxic’ branding, ‘defamatory’ audit claims
August 19, 2026 // Debates about the transparency of the CTU’s finances date back to 2024 and stem from one member’s complaint that the union is withholding financial information from members. CTU officials in January provided WBEZ/Sun-Times with a sign-in sheet that showed one of that suit’s plaintiffs had viewed the union’s audit reports, which don’t include information about the CTU’s foundation. The CTU has insisted that its constitution does not require the release of the full audits that also include the foundation’s finances. The new lawsuit claims the finalization of the audit reports were delayed for “innocuous reasons,” including that the finalization for fiscal year 2020 through 2023 were delayed due to complications from the pandemic and staffing turnover, as well as the impact of a lawsuit to protect pension benefits. The suit says the reports have been available to CTU members for review.
Ex-NFLPA lawyer settles lawsuit with union over alleged retaliation
August 18, 2026 // McPhee was fired less than two weeks after filing her federal lawsuit, which accused former union executive director Lloyd Howell Jr., lead counsel Tom DePaso and Matt Curtin, president of union licensing arm NFL Players Inc., of illegal misconduct, sex discrimination, breach of fiduciary duty and retaliation. Last July, Howell resigned as ESPN prepared to report that he had used union funds to pay for a car service from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airport to a Miami strip club and had sought union reimbursement for a visit to an Atlanta strip club accompanied by a pair of union employees.
After financial troubles and firings, MASTERS Program staff starts union
August 14, 2026 // Nugent is in her fourth year at the school, but the effort began in just her second semester there, when she started working to bring in the state’s other teachers’ union, the National Education Association of New Mexico — “because Northern New Mexico schools are supposed to use NEA,” she said. But after a few Santa Fe local leadership positions switched around within NEA and a “poor meeting of about two hours that wasted teachers’ time,” she said, the partnership fell through. She was ultimately told the union “did not want to bother with unionizing small charter schools because it wasn’t profitable.” NEA New Mexico President Bethany Jarrell disputed that characterization.
Unions sue Education Department over RISE rule that reclassifies degrees and imposes loan limits
August 13, 2026 // As colleges prepare to start their fall semesters, a coalition of unions representing teachers, nurses and public service workers sued the U.S. Education Department on Tuesday over a student loan rule that took effect July 1. The Reimagining and Improving Student Education, or RISE, rule set new caps on federal student loan borrowing based on types of degree. The RISE rule capped professional degree student loans at $50,000 per year and $200,000 total. The limits are applicable to 11 approved professional fields: medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology.
Federal employees face reality of Schedule Policy/Career
July 8, 2026 // Trump administration officials have said the creation of Schedule Policy/Career aims to improve employee accountability and ensure the federal workforce is carrying out the president’s policy agenda. A senior administration official last month told reporters, “As long as employees are performing their job duties in a competent, professional manner,” then reclassified federal employees “have nothing to be afraid of.”