Posts tagged unionizations
Encore Boston Harbor Unionization Continues as Cage Workers Join Teamsters
September 11, 2025 // Proponents of unions say collective bargaining leads to better pay and benefits for workers, and gives employees a stronger voice against management and ownership. Opponents claim unions harm businesses by raising costs, hindering productivity, limiting worker autonomy, and contributing to economic instability.
Union representing Maryland state employees opens ranks to supervisors
May 7, 2024 // he legislation applies only to front-level supervisors who do daily supervision of staff and perform similar duties to the people they oversee including, for example, nurse supervisors at state hospitals or lieutenants at a state prisons. It does not apply to state employees in managerial positions who have the ability to hire, fire and make departmental decisions.
ATR Urges Lawmakers to Pass the SALT Act
March 28, 2024 // The SALT Act has been met with support from both business leaders and worker interest groups, highlighting a broad coalition against union workplace subversion. According to Vincent Vernuccio, President of the Institute for the American Worker (I4AW), “unions should make the case for representation in plain sight and let the workers decide.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emphatically agreed, insisting that the SALT Act would address a “considerable imbalance” between labor unions and employers, ensuring that employers “know who they are hiring, and allow employees to know if those urging them to join a union are actually working for that union.”