Unions

U.S. Appeals Court Revives Clinton Email Suit

In a new legal development on the controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, an appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and said two U.S. government agencies should have done more to recover the emails.

New OT Rules Will Hurt, not Help, Entrepreneurs

Opinion: How are startups and small businesses being repaid for all the risks that we are taking? With a sucker punch of new regulations that will make it suddenly more costly to operate and of course to create new jobs.

Supreme Court Won't Reopen Union-Fees Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by public school teachers in California asking the justices to rehear a major challenge to fees that unions collect from non-members on which the court split 4-4 in March.

Supreme Court Won't Reopen Union-Fees Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by public school teachers in California asking the justices to rehear a major challenge to fees that unions collect from non-members on which the court split 4-4 in March.

Verizon and Union Workers Reach Tentative Deal

Verizon Communications Inc and unions representing nearly 40,000 wireline workers have reached a tentative deal to end a strike that has stretched for more than month, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said on Friday.

Attn Taxpayers: Post Office Workers Paid for Doing Nothing

Even though the U.S. Post Office has lost more than $50 billion in the last nine years, an odd deal cut between the U.S. Postal Service and its government union has resulted in millions of tax dollars spent on post office workers who get paid for doing nothing.

Split SCOTUS Rejects Non-Member Challenge to Union Fees

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday split 4-4 on a conservative legal challenge to a vital source of funds for organized labor, affirming a lower-court ruling that allowed California to force non-union workers to pay fees to public-employee unions.

Split SCOTUS Rejects Non-Member Challenge to Union Fees

The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 on a conservative legal challenge to a vital source of funds for organized labor, affirming a lower-court ruling that allowed California to force non-union workers to pay fees to public-employee unions.

California Lawmakers, Unions Reach $15 Minimum Wage Deal

California lawmakers and union leaders have reached a tentative deal to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 over six years that could avert a campaign to bring the issue to voters, two California newspapers reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.

Federal Government’s ‘Hall of Shame’

Every two years, before Congress is set to begin its session, the Government Accountability Office releases a list of the federal programs most at risk of fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement.