Here are a few things employers should expect from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2018: Budget Cuts: OSHA may face budget cuts because Republicans, who try to curtail big government spending, controls Congress and the White House. With fewer resources, OSHA will likely enact fewer regulations and limit their enforcement of existing…

Musicians should have been allowed to stand on private property while they protested a ballet company’ use of recorded music inside a performing arts center. This decision shows that the right of employees to engage in peaceful and non-disruptive labor activities may trump the interest of an employer to control access to its private property.…

Employees of the labor-backed social justice campaign Fight for $15 have joined a union themselves. The organizers joined the United Media Guild via card check. Comically, a majority of workers signed authorization cards desiring union representation. I’m left wondering why all workers did not sign cards. Apparently even when you work for a union, you…

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 3 has been on strike against Charter Communications-Spectrum for many months. Roughly 1,800 workers walked off the job to protest what they call unfair disciplinary actions and a bare-bones benefits package. Eight months and $4 million in strike funds later, the service technicians are still out of work…

Federal lawmakers are trying to come up with a way to protect the pensions of more than one million union workers. Several options have been offered, none have been accepted. The latest offer comes from union crony Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal. Their bills came the same day the Pension Benefit…

The union representing about 2,500 bus and rail operators in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, the site of the 2018 Super Bowl, authorized a strike for Super Bowl week when the city will be bursting with football fans. The union would strike for a 10-day period ending February 4, the actual date of the Super Bowl. The…