“Nearly two years after leaving the AFL-CIO with big plans to organize more workers and re-energize the labor movement, a [The Change to Win] group of unions has accomplished much less than it hoped and is grappling with internal divisions,”…
With the power to negotiate international trade agreements about to expire, Democrats in Congress are pressing the White House to accept provisions that would boost the power of Big Labor in the United States in exchange for extending negotiating authority.
Connecticut state law bans public unions from organizing strikes or similar work stoppages that could interrupt normal functioning. But when two Stamford police union officials were questioned about a statistically improbable absentee pattern over a nine day period during ongoing…
New Jersey residents pay the most property tax in the country. The average yearly property tax bill tops $7,000 a year. Even New Jersey Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine supports reforming the tax system but his proposals have been stymied by…
A 186-page, 44 count indictment was handed down in November on Brian McLaughlin for alleged crimes he committed during his tenure as president of the New York City Central Labor Council, and a Queens, NY assemblyman. According to the New…
In mid-November, according to the St. Louis Business Journal, Mary Love, former president of the American Federation of Governmental Employees (AFGE) union Local 96, was convicted “of two felony counts of falsifying government forms and three felony counts of theft…