Several Florida school districts are at a standstill with the state’s teachers unions over pay increases. The state allocated $800 million to increase teacher salaries across the state, but school districts say unions are holding things up. In Hillsborough County, Superintendent Addison Davis noted that the union, as the bargaining
Elisabeth Messenger, interim CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment, penned an opinion editorial in The Center Square.
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler recently appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the disappointing findings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). “People are continuing to lose ground because workers don’t have the power they need to negotiate better conditions and wages on their own,” Shuler said. “You can do
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently issued a report on union membership, which found that overall union membership rates have declined to “the lowest on record.” BLS is an agency operating within the Department of Labor (DOL), which is headed by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. The agency releases this
Last week, Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) filed a comment in opposition to an attempt made by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to compel federal employees into paying membership dues. The proposed rule change could trap more than one million federal employees into union membership. Currently, federal employees who
Workers at the University of Arizona (UA) are demanding a large pay raise, to the tune of $25 an hour, by 2025. The United Campus Workers of Arizona (UCW), which also represents workers at Arizona State University (ASU), is calling for people to sign their petition to university administrators to
A month after Congress and President Joe Biden ended a potential railroad strike, a coalition of over sixty public and private labor unions are voicing their opposition to the deal. Delegates from the Western Mass Area Labor Federation (WMALF), which claims to represent 60,000 workers in the region, voted unanimously
In the wake of the graduate workers’ strike at University of California, the graduate student union at the University of Michigan is clamoring for pay raises and other benefits from its university administration. The Graduate Employee’s Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan published an opinion editorial in the Michigan
With a new legislative session starting in Michigan, lawmakers in both political parties are filing bills that could become law by the end of the session. One of the more notable bill proposals was a proposed repeal of the state’s Right-to-Work law, which caused a major stir between Big Labor,
