Sean Higgins

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Employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., work on a Passat sedan. (AP/Erik Schelzig)

Beltway Confidential

United Auto Workers even subpoenaed conservative group’s intern

Sean Higgins · May 7, 2014 4:00 am

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Liberal leaders less supportive of unions for their own organizations

Sean Higgins · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Orrin Hatch reaches into his past as a union worker to help reform Big Labor

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

After a pressure campaign by teachers unions, the Discovery Channel has knuckled under and canceled the program "Bad Teachers." The true-crime series, which examines cases where teachers became sexually involved with their students, aired its only episode last week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Teachers unions get Discovery Communications to cancel ‘Bad Teacher’ show

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

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NLRB rules workers must pay year’s worth of dues to decertified union

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Tom Price is House sponsor of the Employee Rights Act, legislation that would ensure workers have a secret ballot in all union elections, protect their privacy during organizing bids and affirm that those in unions are not forced to contribute to union activities that are unrelated to collective bargaining, such as political campaigns. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Tom Price: The time has come to reform the union-worker relationship

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

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Big Labor turns left even as workers, lawmakers form new union models for the future

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Northwestern running back Venric Mark speaks at a news conference after his football team participates in a NCAA college football practice April 1 in Evanston, Ill. (AP/M. Spencer Green)

Beltway Confidential

Congress to hold hearing on union efforts to organize NCAA athletes in light of Northwestern union vote

Sean Higgins · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is surrounded by reporters as he attends a rally at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Illinois politicians forced home care workers into union that donates heavily to them

Sean Higgins · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Forced unionization turned Illinois homemaker into Supreme Court plaintiff in Harris v. Quinn case

Sean Higgins · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP/Erik Schelzig)

Despite repeated failures, Card Check still top Big Labor priority

Sean Higgins · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks with a reporter during the National Governor's Association Winter Meeting in Washington on Feb. 23. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Scott Walker: Wisconsin would be in deep trouble now if public employee collective bargaining reforms had not passed

Sean Higgins · April 30, 2014 4:00 am