President Joe Biden’s appointees at the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) are proposing a new rule to require that only companies with unionized workforces be allowed to bid for new government contracts worth $35 million or more annually. The FARC proposal implements Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14063 that requires Project Labor Agreements (PLA) on all…

A federal judge has ordered that fired Southwest Airlines flight attendant Charlene Carter’s religious discrimination lawsuit against the company and its union would proceed to trial, after the judge denied a request to dismiss the lawsuit. The case, known as Carter v. Transport Workers Union of America Local 556, civil action 3:17-cv-2278, is pending in…

A federal appeals court rejected a healthcare union’s request that the judges reconsider their decision upholding the right of nurses to not be required to fund the labor group’s political lobbying. The United Nurses and Allied Professionals (UNAP) union had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reconsider its September…