Unions in the News – Weekly Highlights
California politics: Union-backed Democrats face off against anti-union Democrats By Sharon Bernstein, June 3, 2014, Reuters Californians head to the polls on Tuesday for a primary election likely to...
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California court rules teacher tenure creates unequal conditions By Lyndsey Layton, June 10, 2014, Washington Post A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that tenure, seniority and other job...
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Jerry Brown Gets His Budget, Teachers Unions Get a Wake-Up Call By William Bradley, June 17, 2014, Huffington Post Governor Jerry Brown got another on-time California state budget with nearly...
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Orange County Sheriff Union Protests County Secrecy on Billing Records By Norberto Santana Jr., June 24, 2014, Voice of OC Just as county supervisors prepare Tuesday to consider a measure seeking to...
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Here Are 4 Lawsuits That Could Inflict More Damage on Unions After Harris v. Quinn By Andy Kroll, July 1, 2014, Mother Jones On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday defied some...
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A healthy blow to labor overreach By Ed Feulner, July 15, 2014, Washington Times As my Heritage colleagues James Sherk and Andrew Kloster note, the ruling will likely have only limited effect in the...
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Detroit’s Retirees Vote to Lower Pensions, in Support of Bankruptcy Plan By Monica Davey, July 22, 2014, New York Times Coming to terms with what came to be seen as inevitable, this city’s...
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Jim Righeimer was elected to the Costa Mesa City Council in 2010, where he currently serves as Mayor. In Costa Mesa, Jim has led the charge to shrink government and provide more transparency and...
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N.L.R.B. Ruling Holds McDonald’s, Not Just Franchisees, Liable for Worker Treatment By Steven Greenhouse, July 29, 2014, New York Times The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ruled...
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Golden Gate Transit District Unions Authorize Strike By Holly Quan, August 5, 2014, CBS San Francisco A coalition of 13 of Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District workers’ unions has...
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California Supreme Court Rejects Anti “Citizens United” Ballot Measure By William Bigelow, August 12, 2014, Breitbart California On Monday, the California Supreme Court blocked an “advisory” ballot...
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Teachers union talking strategy for combatting teacher jail By Vanessa Romo, August 19, 2014, LA School Report While officials from the teachers union, UTLA, are contemplating salary demands in a new...
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Minnesota Home-Care Workers Say Yes to Union By Kris Maher, August 26, 2014, Wall Street Journal The Service Employees International Union scored a victory Tuesday as home health-care workers in...
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Raising minimum wage will only be beneficial to Big Labor interests By Fred Wszolek, September 2, 2014, San Francisco Examiner This November, San Francisco could become the next city on the West Coast...
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Court: NLRB is Acting Like a Union Subsidiary By Bill McMorris, September 9, 2014, Washington Free Beacon A Pennsylvania judge accused a federal labor arbiter of acting as an extension of a powerful...
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Golden Gate Bridge Union Workers Begin Strike Over Health-Care Benefits By Jeffrey Schaub, September 16, 2014, CBS San Francisco Union workers began a one-day strike Tuesday morning at the Golden Gate...
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Resigned to Freedom: The California Teachers Association prepares for life as a voluntary association By Larry Sand, September 21, 2014, City Journal The worst union in America is contemplating its...
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Liberal groups critical of ALEC influencing laws, but not labor unions By Adam Tobias, September 30, 2014, Watchdog.org Stand Up to ALEC and other affiliated left-leaning groups opposed to the American...
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Silicon Valley, Meet Organized Labor By Kevin Roose, October 7, 2014, New York Magaizne Tech companies and labor unions have never been friends. Whether union protectionism has made it tech’s enemy or,...
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Unions Try To Replace San José Mayor Over Pension Reform By Connor D. Wolf, October 14, 2014, Daily Caller Labor unions in San José, Calif. are overwhelmingly opposing the Democratic mayoral candidate...
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