by Virginia Rodino | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles
Can your employer cancel your union’s right to bargain by issuing a press release? On March 7 the Department of Homeland Security announced plans “ending collective bargaining” for TSA’s transportation screening officers by issuing a press release. Could any employer,...
by Virginia Rodino | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles
Organizing and action by government workers to oppose the Trump-Musk assault on public services is burgeoning. Here are some examples: Federal Unionists Network (FUN), which brings together workers from all federal government unions, has launched a “Let Us Work”...
by Virginia Rodino | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles
America’s two largest unions, the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union, are among dozens of sponsors of a nationwide mobilization April 5 “to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history.” The call for the mobilization...
by Virginia Rodino | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles
Washington trade unions, including UFCW and AFT, have begun organizing a campaign for the state to divest its pension and other funds from fossil fuels. As Jeff Johnson, a former President of the Washington State Labor Council and a longtime member of the LNS board...
by Virginia Rodino | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles
LNS Board member Edgar Franks is the political director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, a farmworkers’ union in Skagit County, WA. He was recently interviewed on a Northwest Public Broadcasting feature on “Immigrant enforcement concerns farmers and farmworkers in...
by Virginia Rodino | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles
A jury in North Dakota jury recently ordered the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace to pay pipeline corporation Energy Transfer more than $660 million dollars for defamation and other claims connected to protests at the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016-17. The decision...
