Institute For The American Worker

California’s Kitchen Nightmare: Union Demands Rise as Enrollment Falls @The74 the74million.org/article/califo…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has withdrawn recognition from the union representing its postdoctoral and graduate student fellows. In the email announcing the decision, the NIH stated it withdrew recognition because the fellows are not “employees.” Unionization at federal agencies like the NIH is regulated by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), buff.ly/shfe4yj

BP said negotiations with the local union have led to no progress on proposals it views as critical to the refinery's future. The company also cited a continued state of labor uncertainty, including possibility of a walkout after 24-hours' notice. BP to Begin Lockout of Union Workers at Indiana Refinery, Expects No Impact on Operations buff.ly/huzWtbY

If you belong to one, check out how much goes toward employer relations (strike fund, contract negotiations), union-provided-benefits, vs union administration and political spending.

From @RedJahncke: "Lamont [is] poised to deliver workers a whopping 60% pay raise, or a $2.7 billion payroll increase from $4.6 billion to $7.3 billion over ten years." How will that make CT more affordable, livable, workable? the-red-line.com/2026/03/17/lam…

The United Farm Workers acknowledged Cesar Chavez "allegations involving abuse of young women or minors. Allegations that very young women or girls may have been victimized are crushing," the union stated Cesar Chavez allegations prompt UFW to skip Cesar Chavez Day events buff.ly/3jE5M1h

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards today announced the launch of a data visualization tool designed to provide union members with a simple, straightforward way to see how their union dues are spent. buff.ly/FK0DNM6

“Even though my coworkers and I have a variety of jobs for Windstream across North Carolina, we agreed that CWA union bosses were not making our working lives any better,” @RightToWork => Over 100 Windstream North Carolina Employees Vote to Free Themselves of Unwanted CWA Union buff.ly/1jjU9aD

With teachers union support, committee approves charter school mandates buff.ly/F1aq2EC

NEW: United Farm Workers acknowledged Cesar Chavez "allegations involving abuse of young women or minors. Allegations that very young women or girls may have been victimized are crushing," the union stated. Cesar Chavez allegations prompt UFW to skip Cesar Chavez Day events buff.ly/3jE5M1h

NEW: The Rise of Portable Benefits @MissLiyaP open.substack.com/pub/liyapalaga…

Fairley admitted to going on overseas trips for meetings when he was an international vice president, including one to England in 2020 with five other union leaders and another to Paris. The trips involved stays in luxury hotels and extravagant meals Two ex-Boilermakers plead guilty in $20M racketeering case involving KC-based union buff.ly/o7hKlNV

"Workers shouldn’t have to take it on faith that union officials are handling their dues responsibly," McGrath adds. "There are more than 100,000 dues-paying public employees in Connecticut, federal data reveals. Without effective reporting rules, they are left in the dark until something goes badly wrong." "An unenforced law does nothing to protect the workers whose money is at stake." Read the rest here: buff.ly/OAlfeOG

Museum employees are concerned for "job insecurity, unfair compensation, a lack of transparency around managerial decision-making, and isolation between workers in separate departments" Union Effort at New York Transit Museum Heads to a Vote buff.ly/YbBfNRF

According to eight years of data obtained from the State Controller’s Office on the number of dues-paying state workers, some unions have slowly bled members since the Janus decision. For other bargaining units, the membership level has dropped 20% over that period. How CA state worker unions have fared since landmark SCOTUS decision reshaped membership buff.ly/YM5ycV4

ILLINOIS: With teachers union support, committee approves charter school mandates buff.ly/1Jfe1Ne via @thecentersquare

American organized labor is about Everything Leftism, not (just) wages and work hours.

Student Workers of Columbia, a union representing roughly 3,500 graduate and undergraduate student workers at Columbia University, has “overwhelmingly” authorized a strike as part of ongoing contract negotiations with the university, including demands for an institutional boycott of Israel. Columbia student worker union authorizes strike amid contract talks, Israel boycott demands buff.ly/L8QITCV

As "champions of public education" why are students not reading/writing/math at grade level. Maybe politics over student achievement?

Two New Jersey teachers and a state think tank are separately challenging how the New Jersey Education Association used teachers’ dues to fund its political action committees. In their New Jersey Superior Court lawsuit, Dr. Marie Dupont and Ann Marie Pocklembo argue that the union broke their membership contract, made misrepresentations, and breached its fiduciary duty to union members when it spent more than $40 million of members’ dues to support then-NJEA president Sean Spiller’s gubernatorial campaign. The New Jersey Policy Institute @NJPIDoes is asking for the IRS to investigate up to $114 million in potentially misreported dues transfers from the NJEA to a Super PAC and for the New Jersey election commission to examine campaign donations that may have exceeded state limits.