Labor Issues
Fired nurses get their jobs back
Nine Federation of Nurses/UFT members who were unfairly stripped of their livelihoods have won back their jobs at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in one of the biggest arbitration victories that the UFT has ever achieved for unlawful terminations
Trump guts national labor board
The National Labor Relations Board is at a standstill after President Donald Trump fired board chair Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic appointee, leaving a total of three vacancies on the five-member panel and ensuring it does not have a quorum to conduct business.
Federal workforce under attack
In the latest salvo in its bid to control and reduce the size of the federal workforce, the Trump administration has decreed that union contract provisions permitting telework for federal employees are invalid because they conflict with management prerogatives.
Boom in higher ed unionization
More than 50,000 graduate students and other student workers on 51 university campuses nationwide have formed unions since 2022, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
Union organizing on the rise
Petitions from workers seeking union representation doubled during President Joe Biden’s presidency, compared with the numbers during Donald Trump’s term as president, according to new figures released by the National Labor Relations Board.
Casino workers reach contract deal
More than 4,000 hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip reached a tentative contract with the Venetian Resort Las Vegas, the latest in a string of recent union victories for over 40,000 hospitality workers on the Strip.