2,824 Public Employees Helped Opt Out
18,000 Members
$323,875 Saved in Annual Union Dues
The House of Representatives made waves last spring when it passed a resolution which allowed staffers to unionize. Ever since, the Congressional Workers Union (CWU) has been unionizing House Democrats’ office staff. The CWU lists allies on its website and social media accounts which include United Auto Workers, Teamsters, and
Americans for Fair Treatment’s amicus brief was mentioned by Law360.
Union leaders are blaming remote work for declining union membership in California after state data showed the amount of dues-paying union members declined by 3,750 from October 2021 to October 2022. Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG) executive director Ted Toppin said, “It’s very difficult to make that connection, try
Americans for Fair Treatment interim CEO Elisabeth Messenger was quoted by American Greatness.
Americans for Fair Treatment interim senior organizing director Brigette Herbst was quoted by The Daily Caller.
Americans for Fair Treatment interim CEO Elisabeth Messenger was quoted by FrontPage Magazine.
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The fall has been filled with strikes and threats, and now the latest group of workers to join the fray are school workers at Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). SEIU Local 99 – the union that represents the workers – announced this week that the union plans to hold
