NEW YORK, N.Y.—The editorial staff at The Intercept investigative-news site unanimously ratified its first union contract, the Writers Guild of America, East announced July 25. The three-year deal contains numerous
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—Discussions July 18 on how to fund the state’s health-insurance program for its workers were overshadowed by Senate President Mitch Carmichael’s Twitter denunciations of teachers’ unions for supporting
DETROIT, Mich.—Hundreds of retirees and union workers joined House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and the heads of the Teamsters and United Auto Workers in Detroit July 20 for a town-hall
LINCOLN, Neb.—State prison and security workers voted overwhelmingly July 19 to switch their union from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ state affiliate to the Fraternal Order
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Mark Janus, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that held public-sector workers can’t be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them, is quitting his state
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Three weeks before the Aug. 7 vote on a ballot initiative to repeal Missouri’s law banning the union shop, the pro-repeal coalition had raised more than four times
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Mark Janus, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that held public-sector workers can’t be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them, is quitting his state
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Saying it was not a “reasonable resolution,” a federal administrative law judge on July 17 rejected a proposed settlement between McDonald’s and the National Labor Relations Board.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Some 600 ground-operations workers facing mass layoffs at Los Angeles International Airport may go on strike if their employer doesn’t improve its minimal severance-pay offer.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—More than 800 adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty members at Fordham University voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract, Fordham Faculty United/SEIU Local 200United announced July 18.
