Federal appeals court upholds collective bargaining limits (UPDATE)

Senate panel considers labor board nominees (UPDATE)

Published: May 16, 2013
Tags: National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, unions

Senate Republicans said Thursday they would not support five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, raising the possibility the troubled agency could be rendered mostly inoperable later this year.

Appeals court strikes down union poster rule

Published: May 7, 2013
Tags: NLRB, unions

In another blow to the nation’s dwindling labor unions, an appeals court on Tuesday struck down a federal rule that would have required millions of businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union.

High court urged to take union lawsuit

Published: April 25, 2013
Tags: collective bargaining, Scott Walker, unions

A state appeals court is urging the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a case brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker’s law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

Unions seek injunction to block law implementation

Published: April 23, 2013
Tags: collective bargaining, Scott Walker, unions

Unions challenging Gov. Scott Walker’s law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers have asked a court to stop the state from implementing portions of the law found to be unconstitutional.

State’s union officials question Caterpillar layoffs

Published: April 3, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar, jobs, unions
Comments: 1

Wisconsin union officials questioned Caterpillar Inc.’s plans to temporarily lay off up to 300 workers in the Milwaukee area after the company’s CEO called for more visas for foreign engineers and a path to legal status for workers who entered the country illegally .

State AG won’t continue to seek hold on collective bargaining ruling

Published: March 15, 2013
Tags: collective bargaining, unions

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he will not ask the Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider putting on hold a lower court’s ruling that threw out major portions of the law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public unions.

Appeals court refuses to reinstate collective bargaining law (UPDATE)

Published: March 12, 2013
Tags: collective bargaining, unions

A Wisconsin appeals court has refused to put on hold a judge’s decision repealing major parts of Gov. Scott Walker’s law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

Unions aim to limit budget cut fallout on workers

Published: February 27, 2013
Tags: EPA, unions
Comments: 1

Federal employee labor unions are trying to soften the blow for more than 1 million government workers who might be forced to take unpaid time off if mandatory budget cuts kick in this week.

Unions suffer steep decline in membership (UPDATE)

Published: January 23, 2013
Tags: ALF-CIO, Richard Trumka, unions

Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s as cash-strapped state and local governments shed workers and unions had difficulty organizing new members in the private sector despite signs of an improving economy.