Pennsylvania Teamsters Face Pension Cuts
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Western Pennsylvania Teamsters and Employers Pension Fund is the latest multiemployer pension plan to announce that it needs to cut benefits to stay solvent—and Bill Lickert is the
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Western Pennsylvania Teamsters and Employers Pension Fund is the latest multiemployer pension plan to announce that it needs to cut benefits to stay solvent—and Bill Lickert is the
DES MOINES, Iowa—Last February, then-Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law one of the most draconian anti- union measures in the country. It prohibited public-sector workers other than police and
New York, N.Y.—The first thing you see when you click on District Council 37’s Web site is a green and yellow pop-up declaring “NO Con Con!” The cover of the
National Report from Washington—A monthly Series By Rob Weiner and Ben Lasky This week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its report on the Alexander-Murray healthcare bill, a rare bipartisan
BATON ROUGE, La.—About 350 Filipino teachers who worked in Louisiana will receive about $2,200 each in a class-action lawsuit against a placement agency, the Louisiana Federation of Teachers announced Oct.
ANAHEIM, Calif.—After California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom advocated a single-payer health-care system, the National Union of Healthcare Workers on Oct. 22 endorsed him for governor in the 2018 election.
KINGSTON, Pa.—About 150 SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania members went on strike for one day Oct. 20 at First Hospital, a for-profit opioid-addiction treatment and mental-health facility in this Wilkes-Barre suburb.
TRENTON, N.J.—The building-services union 32BJ SEIU has denounced New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Kim Guadagno as racist for a television ad accusing her opponent of supporting “criminal illegals.”
Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court held in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, that employees who elect not to join the union representing them may still be
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—About 500 state judicial employees have gained the right to form a union, under a law Gov. Jerry Brown signed Oct. 15.