Last week, New York City reached an agreement with the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA), the union representing Staten Island Ferry workers, to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement. The contract is the first since 2010 and is retroactive to November 2010.  Unfortunately, the Staten Island Ferry workers’ experience is

Labor unions in Florida have struggled to meet provisions of the state’s new public sector union laws that went into effect on July 1. Senate Bill 256, which was signed by the governor in May, prohibits direct payroll deductions for union dues and requires a union recertification election if membership

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