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A new study reveals how some union practices prioritize maintaining their political influence over delivering benefits.
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New federal data released today illustrate the increasingly urgent need to address the country’s ever-worsening workforce crisis.
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to the Members of the United States Senate opposing H.R. 7, the "Paycheck Fairness Act."
Originally published in the Anchorage Daily News, June 6, 2021 By Alicia Siira, Joe Michel, Rebecca Logan, and Kati Capozzi
As observers of labor policy know, unions and their allies have undertaken a concerted effort in recent years to undermine independent contracting, and that effort has led to misguided policies like California’s notorious legislation known as AB 5, the ramifications of which are still unfolding.
The White House on May 26 announced that the President intended to nominate Gwynne Wilcox to fill the lone vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which currently has a 3-1 Republican majority.
In a saga that has been in the making for nearly twenty years, the Biden administration last week realized yet another priority for organized labor when the Department of Labor announced it planned to rescind the Form T-1, an obscure financial report for trusts in which a labor union has an interest. The May 27 announcement will stop (again) one of the signature fi
Comments re: Request for Information on Data Sources and Methods for Determining Prevailing Wages Levels for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Immigrant and Non-Immigrants in the United States
By analyzing more than two decades worth of federal jobs and employment data and conducting surveys of top industry association economists and local and state chamber of commerce leaders across the country, we examined the current state of the American workforce and the monumental challenges employers are facing across the country.
Businesses are increasingly saying they are unable to hire the workers they need to make their products and provide their services.
