December 31, 2019 Baker Mitchell: Why do charter schools keep growing? Charter schools are growing nationally because they offer parents an alternative to public schools in which many children feel ignored, unsafe or unchallenged.
December 26, 2019 Embattled union honchos’ lavish spending exposed: Villas, four-figure dinners, $60,000 cigar bill Work hard, play hard -- and on the union's dime. That might as well have been the motto for some former top officials at the United Automobile Workers.
December 11, 2019 Bernie Sanders heckled by Las Vegas union members over Medicare-for-All Bernie Sanders faced pushback from union members in Las Vegas on Tuesday over how the Democratic presidential candidate would fund a government-subsidized health care plan that would force union members to forfeit the benefits they’ve spent years bargaining for.
October 31, 2019 Chicago teachers' strike ends after 11 days without classes Chicago teachers will return to class on Friday after reaching a labor contract deal Thursday with the nation's third-largest school district.
October 28, 2019 New challenge to union power brewing in wake of Janus ruling In the wake of a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that public-sector unions cannot force non-members to pay a fee for representation in the workplace, a new challenge to union power is taking shape.Â
October 28, 2019 Rebecca Friedrichs: Chicago unions stage a fake crisis to grab power Teachers want to teach. Teachers’ unions just want power.
October 17, 2019 Chicago teachers go on strike, canceling class for 300,000 students Teachers across Chicago hit the picket lines Thursday after months of union demands for better working conditions and smaller class sizes failed to materialize.
October 9, 2019 Rebecca Friedrichs: Teachers, your unions might support Trump's impeachment but they've abandoned you Here's the real "existential threat" to our country.
September 26, 2019 Sanders vs. Warren: Progressive contenders split endorsement of key California union A union that represents 15,000 health care workers in California – the largest state to vote on Super Tuesday next March – is splitting its endorsement between Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the two populist standard-bearers in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
September 16, 2019 Trump administration sees support from farmers over push to cut labor costs The Labor Department has proposed several significant changes to the H-2A program which would make it less expensive and more flexible for farmers.