Several public sector unions, including the Pennsylvania state teachers union, have given full-throated endorsements of Attorney General Josh Shapiro in his race for governor, boosting the Democratic candidate with money and publicity. Shapiro has raised over $20.5 million since he declared his candidacy for the top state office. Of that,

The close relationship between Democrats and union officials is usually seen as a negative for Republicans who miss out on big donations and labor efforts to get out the vote. But, in many ways, the pressure labor officials exert on Democratic lawmakers also hurts their party and their chances for

Should the government be able to force a public employee to pay for political activity they disagree with? Of course not. And thanks to the 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision, they can’t! We see the positive impacts of the Janus decision on the lives of the public employees

A Pennsylvania teachers union opposes a bill that would warn parents before their children are shown sexually explicit material in school. The bill would require schools to notify parents if students will be given sexually explicit material as part of a school’s curriculum or if they want to view library

The president of a local Massachusetts union explained how she was able to get teachers to agree to an illegal strike through a strategy of “agitate and persuade,” while speaking to attendees at a Labor Notes conference on June 18. The Brookline Educators Union (BEU) convinced teachers to engage in

New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) members may not be aware just how big a hole their union is in, but the numbers don’t lie. Last year, the union spent $1 out of every $4 collected from union members to pay down its debts, accrued by not saving enough for