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Workers’ Health Care Restored After Union Bosses Back Down Labor execs threatened to withhold benefits to pressure university employees The University of Puerto Rico / YouTube Screenshot Graham Piro • May 1, 2021 4:58 am Employees at the University of Puerto Rico triumphed over union officials who allegedly threatened to withhold their health care benefits for opting out of the union. The workers at the taxpayer-funded university accused the union of refusing to give employees permanent health insurance until they signed union membership cards authorizing the past deduction of m...

(The Center Square) – The union for a Los Angeles trucking company, Teamsters Local 986, was forced out after nearly 80% of workers signed a petition with the National Labor

“What’s unusual here is that every single worker signed a petition saying they want the carpenters union out. They cut off paying dues, but they’re still under union representation they oppose,” said Semmens, who also pointed out that Indiana is a right to work state.

Biden Labor Purge Sparks Legal Challenge Getty Images Graham Piro • February 22, 2021 4:59 am SHARE An Oregon worker is challenging President Joe Biden's day one purge of Trump appointees from a federal agency, arguing that the administration is shielding a major union accused of violating labor law. Jeremy Brown accused the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 51 of illegally siphoning donations from his paycheck, prompting an investigation from the National Labor Relations Board, the federal government's top labor arbiter. The agency ruled in favor of B...

Supreme Court Won’t Make Government Unions Give Back Unconstitutional Dues While Mark Janus won a landmark legal victory in 2018 outlawing public-sector unions’ collection of forced agency fees from nonmembers, the Supreme Court has denied his follow-up request to have his money reimbursed, without granting him a hearing. The new ruling in which the high court refused to consider the petition for certiorari in Janus v. AFSCME, which bears the same title of proceeding as the landmark ruling, came on Jan. 25. The court didn’t explain why it acted. No justices indicated they dissented from...