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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) expects a busy end to the month as one board member’s term comes to an end. Board Member Gwynne Wilcox’s term expires on August 27 after Senate lawmakers declined to renominate her. Media reports highlighted that the NLRB has traditionally “pushed out some of
Last month, five former union officials at the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) were charged with theft after using union credit cards for their personal expenses. Local media reported that former PSCOA presidents Jason Bloom, Roy Pinto, and Larry Blackwell, former executive vice president Tim Walsh, and former regional
California has been a hotbed of Big Labor activity lately, whether it is a single-day strike by public employees in Los Angeles or ongoing strikes in Hollywood. Now, labor unions are attempting a last-minute legislative push to pass a yet-to-be-written bill that would combine various unrelated bills and tack on
Teachers unions are up in arms about recently passed state laws which prohibit unions from automatically taking membership dues out of public employees’ paychecks in Florida and Tennessee. Unions sued these states over the dues deductions laws, but news broke this month that the Tennessee teachers union gave up its
Remote work and return-to-office policies are coming to a head, particularly in the government sector. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently postponed a plan for federal employees to return to in-office work three days a week starting in October 2023 after pressure from labor unions. The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists
Adding to the ongoing strike by Hollywood actors, writers, and the city’s hotel workers, Los Angeles city workers went on strike for an entire day, halting multiple daily operations of the country’s second-largest city. SEIU Local 721, which represents over 95,000 workers in Southern California, attempted to shut down
Americans for Fair Treatment Special Counsel David Osborne was interviewed by the Federal News Network about ensuring accountability for federal unions: In more than a thousand federal employee complaints filed against their unions, only 1% of those employees prevailed. That is according to research by a group called Americans for
