Circling back to state legislative unions
In New York, “there haven’t been too many updates” since the Assembly went public with its union effort in January.
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In New York, “there haven’t been too many updates” since the Assembly went public with its union effort in January.
A letter from two GOP senators is the latest in a string of document and informational requests by Republicans related to Julie Su, the Labor Department’s acting secretary and President Joe Biden’s nominee for the permanent gig.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has vehemently denied being a joint employer, and is challenging the NLRB’s decision to designate them as one.
Labor unions have been rallying behind Su in an effort to keep Democrats’ unified.
Michigan last month became the first state in decades to repeal a right-to-work law, laws that allow union-represented workers to opt against paying union dues as a condition of employment.
Aides on both sides of the aisle said the NLRB inspector general's decision to open an inquiry into legal issues surrounding a subpoena recently issued to an agency staffer is highly unusual.
The senators say that multiple Equal Employment Opportunity complaints have been filed by FMSC staffers, stemming from organizational restructuring at the agency.
The election is “a movement that unions helped to anchor,” CTU President Stacy Davis Gates told Morning Shift.
The actual battle will be defending against potential cuts to the agency’s funding coming from the GOP.
Marsh's career trajectory perhaps most closely tracks with Peter Brennan, who was likewise a union president prior to his DOL days and later returned to organized labor.