News Analysis Randi Weingarten, the powerful president of the American Federation of Teachers, hasn’t been a working teacher in more than a quarter of a century. Of the six years she spent teaching social studies, half of them appear to have been as a substitute. Yet despite the long absence from her short tenure in…

Commentary Just a few hours before President Biden tied his political fate to the economy, embracing the term “Bidenomics” in a Chicago speech Wednesday, June 28, he was still trying to dispel worries about a looming recession. A reporter asked Biden, before he boarded Marine One, whether he believed the worst of inflation was over….

Billions of dollars are at stake as a three-day hearing at Ontario’s highest court gets underway Tuesday over the province’s controversial wage-limiting law for public sector workers. Last November, a judge with the Superior Court of Justice struck down Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, ruling it unconstitutional. The province…

Last month, California state Senator Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) introduced Senate Constitutional Amendment 7 (SCA 7), the Right to Organize and Negotiate Act, which gives all Californians “the right to join a union and to negotiate with their employers,” among other changes. An SCA can be introduced at any time during the legislative session and allows…

News Analysis President Biden has vowed to be the “most pro-union president in history.” And one sector over which he has a lot of control is said to be bucking the decades-long trend of union decline in a big way: The ranks of unionized federal government employees swelled by nearly 80,000 to about 497,000 dues-paying…

Commentary The Australian Labor Party and the trade unions have been waging a war against what they call “insecure work” and contracting for some years, but it is only now they are in power that the reality is starting to dawn on employers. Take BHP. The mining giant complains that the cost of Labor’s “Same Job. Same…

Commentary The number of federal employees belonging to a union jumped by 20 percent, or nearly 80,000 individuals, in just one year, according to data recently touted by the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. Don’t let the name fool you. As a rise in federal employees seeking legal representation shows, the task force…

United Auto Workers (UAW) is delaying its endorsement of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, according to a May 2 union memo. The Detroit-based union is holding back out of concern for recent Biden administration policies that encourage the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). UAW, based in Detroit, has not endorsed the president, whom it supported in 2020, due…

Commentary In 2021, Edward Gainey was elected mayor of Pittsburgh. His campaign was funded in part by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, which made a generous $350,000 donation—more than all other contributors combined. SEIU Healthcare PA knew what it was paying for when it made this investment—a strong bargaining chip to force the city’s largest employer, University of…

Opposition MPs criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during question period on April 19 for failing to negotiate a deal with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) to prevent 155,000 federal workers from striking. “It is a failure to increase the cost of the bureaucracy by 50 percent with poor services. It is a failure…