Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a paycheck protection bill, which sparked criticism from unions in the Sunshine State. Paycheck protection is one way for states to ensure that workers have the right to opt out of deducting, out of their paycheck, mandatory membership dues and agency fees to unions that

Following the lead of University of California graduate workers, teaching assistants and research assistants at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania went on strike Tuesday morning. The Temple University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) announced on Twitter, “After bargaining for over a year, Temple still refuses to meet our demands of a

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

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