Under pressure from union officials, New Jersey wants to pull out of a bistate commission charged with uncovering crime and corruption on New York Harbor’s waterfront, but New York has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to prevent New Jersey from unilaterally ending the agreement. There is a long

The House of Representatives made headlines earlier this month when they passed a resolution that will allow their staffers to form a union. The push was driven in part by the Instagram account, @dear_white_staffers, which shares anonymous stories of congressional staffers’ negative experiences with their employers. Similar Instagram accounts have

Public-sector unions are connected to a new Democratic Governors Association (DGA) political action committee (PAC) in Pennsylvania, where Attorney General Josh Shapiro will take on state Senator Doug Mastriano in a closely watched race. The new PAC, Put Pennsylvania First, received at least some of its funding from public-sector unions

Collective bargaining—negotiating over contracts—is a powerful tool that unions use to extract things from employers. In the public sector it’s more complicated. If the union has donated money to the campaign of the person who they’re negotiating with, that person might feel like they have to give the union more

When a person has problems with their workplace union, they’re often told, ‘well then, change it from within!’—or change the union by helping bring new leadership to power. But some union elected officials have, with little oversight, worked to make it very difficult for rank-and-file members to make a leadership

Michael Mulgrew will continue to run United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in New York City, after beating back an effort to oust him by a challenger running on a progressive reformist platform. Mulgrew secured his fifth term as president on Wednesday after winning two-thirds of the vote, according to a

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to allow House staff members to unionize. The resolution does not need a Senate vote to go into effect. The Congressional Workers Union, which has been pushing for unionization, said in a statement, “Tonight’s vote is a historic moment for thousands of congressional workers