Are the chickens finally coming home to roost for Teamsters brass? After the Hoffa administration forced concessions onto unwilling members, opponents are teaming up in the 2016 race.
Four thousand turned out in West Virginia March 7—a day after "right to work" passed in Wisconsin. The threat is dead for this legislative session, but clearly not dead for good.
The right to vote for top officers will now be permanently enshrined in the Teamster constitution. And after a wave of anger at concessions, some of Hoffa’s big opponents are teaming up against him.
There’s no bargaining in Volkswagen’s new policy. On closer inspection, it looks more like something anti-union forces have been angling to try. And it's suspiciously similar to what Tennessee legislators have already imposed on teachers.
The Ebola scare highlights problems—lack of supplies and training, for instance, and short staffing most of all—that also hit at the root of much more common safety risks in health care.
After two weeks of protests, and a support strike by several unions, pro-democracy demonstrators were brutally attacked today by pro-government thugs in Hong Kong, scuttling the promise of talks between students and the government.