HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—A Hollywood stuntwoman’s charge that the practice of having men do movie stunts while disguised as women—nicknamed “wigging”—is sex discrimination has rattled the industry, in which none of the
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—UNITE HERE members wearing green T-shirts that read, “7,000 Jobs / No Taxpayer Dollars” rallied here Feb. 6 to support MGM Resorts’s plan to build a casino on
TRENTON, N.J.—A bill to split New Jersey police and firefighters’ unions pension fund off from the main government-worker fund advanced Feb. 5, when it was approved by the state Senate
SEATTLE, Wash.—Teamsters Local 174 and the First Student school-bus company met with a federal mediator Feb. 8 in an attempt to settle a week-old strike by 400 drivers. The drivers
CHARLOTTE, Mich.—When Randall Margraves attempted to attack the disgraced doctor convicted of molesting three of his daughters in a courtroom Feb. 2, he was wearing an blue International Brotherhood of
CHICAGO, Ill.—In what may be the first time public-school and charter-school teachers have combined in the same union, Chicago Teachers Union members have voted to unite with the Chicago Alliance
McKEESPORT, Pa.—Nurses at UPMC McKeesport Hospital near Pittsburgh have voted to keep the Service Employees International Union as their
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Indiana’s 2015 repeal of its “common construction wage” law cut building-trades workers’ pay while failing to reduce public-works projects’ costs, according to a study done by the Midwest Economic
AUSTIN, Tex.—Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.), who failed to win the Texas AFL-CIO’s endorsement for his Senate race after he didn’t appear at its Committee on Political Education’s convention Jan. 19-21,
WASHINGTON—Saying it would eliminate the right to union representation for more than 600,000 workers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is urging members to tell Senate Democrats to filibuster the
