By Olivia Grady

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Texas or SEIU Local 5 began organizing janitors in Houston about 10 years ago in order to expand its membership and was successful with five businesses. Professional Janitorial Service of Houston, Inc. (PJS) however refused in 2006 to recognize the union unless more than half of its employees voted for the union in a secret-ballot election.

By Olivia Grady

Browning-Ferris is a waste recycling facility in a small city in California that contracted with job placement agency Leadpoint to staff part of its facility and provide human resources. Browning-Ferris however had the ultimate authority to fire an employee, and Leadpoint was required to follow Browning-Ferris guidelines on who to hire, working hours, wages, etc.

This arrangement of a couple of hundred employees surprisingly led to one of the worst decisions by the politically appointed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

By Olivia Grady

Black Friday protests in past years have been held at hundreds of Walmarts across the United States, and unions even claimed in 2014 to host protests at 1,600 places.

The protests on Black Friday, November 25, 2016, however were much smaller this year. There were smaller protests in New York, Seattle and Chicago, but the Walmart protests were gone.

Why?

The unions were just not as involved.

By Matthew Benzmiller

Workers at the O'Hare International Airport have decided to delay their strike that was originally going to be before and during Thanksgiving. 

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, had an article published in Forbes on November 20, 2016, about the Sixth Circuit upholding Kentucky’s Right-to-Work ordinance:

Thunderclaps have an echo; the bigger the boom, the bigger the reverberation.

Teachers' union vs free speech and political diversity

By Olivia Grady

On November 10, 2016, the United Educators of San Francisco, a union of San Francisco public school teachers, released a statement called “Moving Forward After the Election.”

The statement first praised the anti-Trump protests that had broken out after the election and claimed that everyone was less safe as a result of Mr. Trump's electoral victory:

By Olivia Grady

At a November 10^th press conference in Detroit about the election, United Auto Workers’ (UAW) President Dennis Williams said that he wants to meet with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss trade deals.  

His particular focus is overturning the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).