COLUMBUS, Ohio—Mayor Andrew J. Ginther’s administration has reached a deal with the Columbus Building & Construction Trades Council that it hopes will increase the number of people pursuing trade apprenticeships
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—All of the about 90 workers in the bargaining unit at ABF Freight System’s Memphis terminal have signed up as members of Teamsters Local 667, the union recently announced.
WASHINGTON—More than half of American teachers say their mental health was “not good” for at least seven days of the previous month, according to a recently released survey by the American
BALTIMORE, Md.—The North American Building Trades Unions has endorsed building a high-speed maglev train route between Baltimore and Washington, the federation announced this week, after Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail, the
DES MOINES, Iowa—A Polk County judge on Oct. 30 summarily dismissed a labor-union lawsuit filed challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new laws prohibiting most public-sector unions from bargaining over
WASHINGTON—The Department of Labor on Oct. 30 requested public comments on an Obama-era rule that would have extended overtime pay to 4.2 million workers, the first step in the process
I planned to write on the constitutionality of forced arbitration clauses this week, but something related intervened, which helps explain why forced arbitration is dangerous to our democracy.
The roll call of sexual predations continues to grow. Journalist and TV analyst Mark Halperin, co-author of the political bestseller, Game Change (2010), is just one more saga of a
WASHINGTON—Nurses returning from disaster-relief work in Puerto Rico charged Oct. 26 that the federal government is “delaying necessary humanitarian aide to its own citizens and leaving them to die.”
Fremont, Calif.—The United Auto Workers filed a complaint against Tesla with the National Labor Relations Board Oct. 25, accusing the company of firing union supporters at its Fremont, California factory.
