COLUMBUS, Ohio—Labor leaders and advocates say a bill intended to stabilize the state’s unemployment-compensation fund would do it by cutting benefits for workers who’ve lost jobs.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Gov. Eric Greitens’ political-action committee has contributed $750,000 to a group opposing the union-backed ballot initiative to repeal Missouri’s “right to work” law.
BALTIMORE, Md.—The Baltimore Teachers Union has asked the city to close public schools that are unable to provide adequate heat until they can be repaired, after teachers reported classroom temperatures
TORONTO, Ontario—Franchise owners who reacted to an increase in the province’s minimum wage by cutting workers’ pay and benefits are using “a bully tactic,” Unifor, Canada’s largest union said Jan.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—In the session that opens Jan. 9, the Florida legislature will take up a bill that public-sector unions fear could wipe them out.
ALBERT LEA, Minn.—A six-hour negotiating session Dec. 28 between Mayo Clinic Health System executives and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota resulted in “little progress,” union bargaining team member Marlene Baseman told KIMT-TV.
WASHINGTON—A top federal appeals court has unanimously rejected an attempt to weaken the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 2016 rule covering workers’ exposure to silica dust.
BELLEVILLE, Ill.—A St. Clair County circuit judge on Dec. 27 voided Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive order to halt collection of union fees from state workers who aren’t members was illegal.
GEORGETOWN, Del.—The Sussex County Council on Jan. 2 postponed its vote on a bill to ban the union shop in the county, after most of the four dozen people who
AUSTIN, Tex.—The Communications Workers of America filed a lawsuit in federal court Jan. 2 demanding that AT&T reinstate 152 workers scheduled to be laid off Jan. 4.
