The mainstream legacy media and especially the hometown Washington Post have been castigating the Trump administration for its “war” on federal civil servants, especially for proposing to eliminate union collective bargaining at U.S. government agencies. (RELATED: The Trump Administration Sets Its…
What good are “good union jobs” if there aren’t any jobs? Steelworkers contesting the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel of Japan might ask themselves that question since opposing the deal will mean just that. (READ MORE: Get Lost, Kid) Nippon Steel…
Unions are said to be having a moment. The story goes something like this: Helped by a presidential administration that touts itself as the “most pro-union in history,” labor unions — after decades of decline — are winning big victories…
March Madness came early to the Dartmouth College basketball team. The “Big Green” aren’t set to compete in the famous tournament, but they did vote on March 5 to create the first college sports union, which was certified on March…
These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools, leading to small or even non-existent salary increases during a period of enhanced inflation. The salary surveys of the American…
They pounded another nail into the coffin that is traditional amateur athletics on Monday. “They” is an amorphous actor, to be sure, comprising athletes, power brokers, agents, the courts, the government, and general mucky-mucks dissatisfied with a model of amateur…
The “Big Three” — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis — have had a tough go of things lately. The recently concluded strikes by their employees were perhaps the most visible indication that all is not roses in U.S. Autoland, but…
On Sept. 15, approximately 13,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members — roughly 10 percent of the union’s members at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis factories in the U.S. — went on strike. The UAW is demanding wage increases of 36…
Joe Biden has joined the UAW strikers. I’m not sure if he’s attending as a worker or as a motorized vehicle. Or maybe to apologize to the strikers, because if there’s anything really threatening their wages, if there’s anything that’s…
