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February 25, 2014
News & Commentary

Jessica Harris

President Obama announced that his administration’s proposed budget will include a 1% pay raise for federal workers, the Washington Post reports. Union leaders and some Democrats have decried this raise as unfair and unreasonable, given the three-year pay freeze and 2013 furloughs federal workers have faced. Administration officials defended the raise, noting “the tight budget constraints” the administration continues […]

February 24, 2014
News & Commentary

Max Utzschneider

Steven Greenhouse in the New York Times profiles the devastating effects of Wisconsin’s 2011 law restricting the rights of public sector unions. Championed by Governor Scott Walker, the law bars public sector unions from bargaining over pensions, health coverage, safety, hours, sick leave, or vacations, and restricts raises on base pay so they cannot exceed […]

February 23, 2014
News & Commentary

Kirsten Bass

The Wall Street Journal reports that Coca-Cola Co.’s Spanish bottler is being taken to court by its unions over the company’s plan to close plants and cut jobs in the Iberian region. Bloomberg reports that Northwestern University football coach Patrick Fitzgerald testified for approximately three hours before the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago. Fitzgerald, […]

February 21, 2014
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Sam Heppell

The New York Times reports that It is not just private-sector employers who are trying to evade the requirements of Obamacare’s insurance mandate – public sector workers around the country have had their hours cut or capped to keep them under 30 hours of work per week. The Affordable Care Act requires employers, both public […]

February 20, 2014
News & Commentary

Carly Rush

The Washington Post reports that the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the country, described the implementation of common core standards in the nation’s public schools as “completely botched” and called for major changes to the roll-out of the standards. The NEA has previously been one of the Obama Administration’s strongest allies […]

February 19, 2014
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Brad King

Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting on yesterday’s non-partisan CBO report on the expected impact of the Obama administration’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10/hour. As the Times notes, the report yielded mixed results: “Republicans contended the policy would be a job-killer, while Democrats asserted it would help […]

February 18, 2014
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Jordan M. Grossman

The New York Times editorial page’s “Room for Debate” section today features an extensive discussion of the UAW’s defeat in Chattanooga, including pieces by Mike Elk, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Linda Chavez, Stephen Silvia, union representatives, and workers from the Chattanooga plant. The Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal report on labor leaders’ vows to continue efforts […]

February 17, 2014
News & Commentary

Alison Deich

According to the New York Times, Volkswagen officials in Germany have renewed their efforts to create a German-style works council at the company’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. On Friday, workers at the Chattanooga plant voted against unionization. The vote was a significant setback for proponents of the works council because most labor experts believe that, […]

February 16, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

On Friday, workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory rejected union representation by the UAW. The L.A. Times describes predictions that the defeat “significantly diminishes the UAW’s chances of forming unions at any of the 10 or so foreign-owned auto factories in the South.” (See some of OnLabor’s background coverage of the VW elections here, here and […]

February 14, 2014
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Scott Hochberg

Today is the final day of voting at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant, as workers decide whether to be represented by the United Auto Workers. As the Washington Post notes, both sides have poured substantial money into this campaign, with some seeing it as pivotal for the future of unionization for auto companies in the South. […]

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