2,824 Public Employees Helped Opt Out
18,000 Members
$323,875 Saved in Annual Union Dues
The grievance process is one of the most misunderstood aspects of public-sector union representation. We spoke with Frank Ricci, retired battalion chief and union president for New Haven Fire Fighters, and lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano to clarify some common misconceptions related to grievances. What do
California’s proposed “Workers Tax Fairness Credit” would be the country’s first tax credit for union dues. California, along with other states including Pennsylvania and New York, already allows union members to lower their taxable income by the amount of their union dues through a tax deduction. The new provision would
Data from Americans for Fair Treatment was featured in the Washington Examiner.
The labor movement can take credit for the creation of Labor Day, but now, 128 years after Labor Day was first celebrated, America finds itself facing a very different labor movement than that of our forebears. Labor Day is when we celebrate the contributions everyday workers make to our country.
A recent poll found that most nonunionized workers are disinterested in unionizing. 71% of Americans surveyed approve of unions, but 80% of nonunionized workers are neutral or disinterested in unionizing. The results come after a 57% increase in union election petitions in the first half of 2021 and high-profile unionization
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Americans for Fair Treatment CEO David Osborne was featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Pennsylvania healthcare workers voted to send strike notices to the state’s three largest nursing home chains—Guardian Healthcare, Priority Healthcare, and Comprehensive Healthcare—as well as Shenandoah Heights Healthcare. The companies combined have 24 facilities across the state. An announcement from SEIU Healthcare says the strikes are related to “the companies’ failures
Last week, the Biden Administration released new data as part of its effort to encourage union membership at the federal level. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) added bargaining unit information to the FedScope database, the agency’s main public database. The new feature shows whether bargaining units are represented
