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Three California state worker unions stood together at SEIU Local 1000 strike
October 21, 2026 // Many state workers are adjusting to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s four-day return-to-office mandate and state-employed scientist raises slated to start in July initially went unfunded. Those raises were eventually funded in August with last-minute legislation. These instances were top of mind Wednesday when leaders from fellow unions — California Professional Scientists, UAW Local 1115 and California Attorneys Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment — joined SEIU Local 1000
Huntington Beach Police Union Spends Big Against City Council Incumbents
October 16, 2026 // Spending is heating up in the race for Huntington Beach City Council after the local police officer’s association dropped nearly $100,000 in independent advertising targeting sitting council members who voted against their raises and supporting their opponents. The Huntington Beach Police Officers Association has spent over $100,000 on city council races as of Oct. 13 according to campaign disclosures. Most of that spending came through the police union’s political action committee, where they disclosed spending $16,000 apiece opposing Mayor Casey McKeon and Councilman Pat Burns just weeks after they voted against a nearly 18% raise for officers over the next three years.
Solvang city workers go on strike, repeatedly clash with officials over wages
October 6, 2026 // A California town know as the “Danish capital of America” has broken out in civil war over how much city workers should get paid. Unionized workers in Solvang have been on strike for three weeks and have refused repeated offers from officials for a negotiated pay rise.
Unionized Workers at 4 NYC Museums Ratify Contracts, Quelling Strike Fears
October 6, 2026 // Unionized staff at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all in New York, have ratified four-year contracts with their respective managements, Artnews reports. AFAM’s union reached an agreement on its first contract, while those at the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim, and the Jewish Museum gained satisfaction with their second contracts.
Massachusetts: Brigham and Women’s nurses set date for potential open-ended strike
October 5, 2026 // Months after holding the largest health care worker strike in Massachusetts, nurses from Brigham and Women’s Hospital are set to go on an open-ended strike starting Oct. 14, their union announced Friday.
Opinion: Gavin Newsom’s mind-boggling record of giveaways to unions
August 25, 2026 // Richer government contracts and expanded public employee benefits don’t come from nowhere. They land on taxpayers — the same taxpayers already staring down the nation’s highest gas prices, some of the steepest home insurance increases in the country and a cost of living that keeps pushing people out of the state entirely.
Op-ed: Los Angeles Schools Run Out of Other People’s Money
August 11, 2026 // Covid dollars from Washington turbocharged hiring at public schools and papered over their structural budget problems. But now that the federal money is drying up, the red ink is starting to gush. According to the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report on Friday, local government education shed 49,600 jobs in July—the leading contributor to the nation’s 23,000 employment decline. Ground zero is the Los Angeles Unified School District, the country’s second largest. Its overseers at the Los Angeles County Office of Education last month warned that the district meets the criteria for a “Lack of Going Concern” designation. In the business world, the terminology means a company is at risk of going bankrupt.
Fort Worth council members weigh in on firefighter union impasse
July 23, 2026 // The city claims that it has offered the union a contract with $40 million in new investments that included a 20% salary increase over four years and changes to the department’s staffing and benefits.
Dream Team of Three Congressional Primary Winners Joins UAW Union Rally for Columbia University Researchers
July 5, 2026 // Three recently elected Democratic nominees for Congress — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander — spoke at a Tuesday rally for CPW-UAW Local 4100, the union that represents 1,600 postdoctoral workers at Columbia University. The lunchtime rally was held in a pedestrian plaza outside the university’s massive medical center in Washington Heights. Drawing over 200 participants, it took place on the day CPW-UAW’s current contract was set to expire and right before a bargaining session between the union and Columbia. As of Wednesday afternoon, the university and the union have yet to settle on a new contract.
With or Without UAW Momentum, Southern Autoworker Activists Determined to Fight On
June 22, 2026 // Still, despite the waning of organizing momentum, workers say that poor treatment has created ripe conditions for organizing. Ballooning health insurance costs have also been eating into Southern auto workers’ paychecks, even as coverage deteriorates. “Up until this year, our health care was free,” says Murphy. “Now we have to pay for it.