Posts tagged unions
Op-ed: Big Labor Schemes Power Grab for Democrats
November 3, 2026 // But there’s reason to doubt the sincerity of labor groups in building a long-lasting relationship. Away from the headlines, Big Labor has been an obstacle against the Trump Administration in court. Unions have sued the Trump Administration more than 70 times–nearly once a week–to stop initiatives including reducing and reorganizing the bloated federal bureaucracy, reducing federal spending, and reining in rogue “independent” bureaucracies full of personally motivated actors who didn’t want to be accountable to the President.
Chicago Parking Garage Workers Vote to Authorize Strike as Contract Expires
November 2, 2026 // Parking garage attendants, porters and customer service workers across the Chicago area voted Friday to authorize a strike, with the clock running out on a labor contract set to expire on Halloween. The vote covers about 1,200 workers employed by more than a dozen parking companies operating at airports, hotels, office buildings, hospitals and other venues throughout the region.
Matt Welch: L.A. Teachers Union Flunks Math, Blames Billionaires
October 29, 2026 // Faced with LAUSD's "high risk" of insolvency due to plummeting enrollment and increased hiring, the union is railing against a "fake independent analysis" and pushing for two separate wealth taxes.
Molson Coors employees in Elkton join Teamsters union
October 28, 2026 // Hourly employees at the Molson Coors brewery in Elkton voted last month to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' Local 29 chapter based in Verona. The union also represents ABF Freight truckers, Danone and other dairy plant workers, Marshall's Distribution Center mechanics, and city employees in Charlottesville. The broader Teamsters organization also represents Coors workers in Fort Worth, Texas.
Freedom Foundation: Are California Unions Legally Untouchable?
October 28, 2026 // The Freedom Foundation sued under California’s unfair business practices laws on behalf of employees allegedly harmed by these and other deceptive practices. But the California courts concluded that consumer protection claims arising from these disputes fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), the state agency that oversees public-sector labor disputes. (Those decisions are on appeal, Marsh et al. v. SEIU Local 2015, No. F090824 (Cal. Ct. App., 5th Dist.); Kendrick et al. v. United Domestic Workers, No. C106403 (Cal. Ct. App., 3d Dist.)) So, the Freedom Foundation’s legal team pivoted and filed unfair labor practice charges with PERB.
Crisis team: Los Angeles schools face risk of insolvency
October 22, 2026 // Izumi, senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute, characterized the board’s decision on the raise as "governance malpractice." "This fiscal train wreck - you could see it coming from a mile off," Izumi told The Center Square. "One of the big reasons why L.A. is in such bad shape right now is because they agreed to a massive union contract with the teachers that they simply couldn't afford. The board did not look at its funding sources and its potential spending cuts that it would have to do in order to afford the teacher union contract that it was about to sign." Prior to those collective bargaining agreements, the Los Angeles County Office of Education had warned district leaders of escalating county supervision actions if deficit spending continued unchecked.
Op-ed: Other states should copy NC’s model labor policy
October 21, 2026 // In both the public and private sectors, North Carolina protects employees’ right to choose. It gives private employees a right to opt out of union dues. And it protects public employees from having a union contract foisted on them. In effect, it respects choice by preventing coercion. But elsewhere, public policy is moving in a different direction — a direction that sacrifices choice in favor of more union membership. The prime example is a recent proposal by academics at Harvard University, which would create a statewide system of “sectoral bargaining.” Sectoral bargaining is the opposite of choice: It funnels every employee in an industry into a single union, whether an employee voted for the union or not. The proposal’s premise is that unions are automatically good for workers, so workers should automatically be put into unions. Choice is beside the point.
Penn State research assistants can unionize too, state labor board rules
October 21, 2026 // The Coalition of Graduate Employees is affiliated with the United Auto Workers. Negotiations between CGE-UAW and the university began in 2026. While the vote to unionize included research assistants, the bargaining has focused only on teaching and administrative assistants.
Feud between progressive unions that put Mayor Johnson in office yields Giannoulias key endorsement
October 21, 2026 // The Service Employees International Union Locals 1 and 73 threw their formidable support behind Alexi Giannoulias, the presumed frontrunner with a campaign war chest of $19.2 million. SEIU affiliates together donated over $4.5 million to Johnson’s 2023 mayoral campaign. The union also provided scores of campaign workers and materials.
WATCH: Clash over union-backed mailers in Washington Supreme Court races
October 21, 2026 // One of the candidates for Washington State Supreme Court is raising concerns about a political action committee that is targeting five candidates for the state's high court. The homepage for the organization, Beware the Attack on Our Courts, says, “Conservative Forces Organizing to Take Over Our Top Court…with five of our nine state Supreme Court seats on the ballot this year, the danger presented by this right-wing effort to pack our court has never been greater.”