Tag: Unions

New York’s construction unions, facing a decades-long decline, are employing a time-honored tactic: getting state government to stop people from competing with them. Read More

New York’s statewide teachers union has been cashing in political chits as it seeks to block new charter schools from opening in New York City, asking the senators and assemblymembers Read More

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