Tag: Unions

About 15 percent of unionized New York state government workers chose not to pay union dues last year, up from 10 percent in 2020, according to a new research report from the Empire Center. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 ended New York’s decades-long practice of forcing state and local government employees to pay a labor union as a condition of employment. Read More

The idea that the PSC would artificially drive electricity costs higher to benefit a political constituency represents a new low. Read More

New York state officials this week took their most serious step yet to limit the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions. But they also showed they are more serious about taking care of one of Read More

Nassau County taxpayers face what could be a $109 million bill. When will they be allowed to see the details? Read More

New York’s legislative employees are not eligible to unionize under the state’s sweeping public-sector collective bargaining law. Read More

Union advocates have argued that employees of the New York State Legislature are covered by the Taylor Law, the 1967 state law that requires state and local public employers, including state agencies, municipalities, and school districts, to recogniz Read More

Christakis remarked on the website that graduate students, now moving to unionize at the school, are not ordinary worker. Read More