Sean Higgins

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President Trump formally ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September. The debate has placed the Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobby, on the same side of the aisle as pro-immigration groups fighting to restore the program. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Chamber urges Trump to spare ‘Dreamers’

Sean Higgins · December 4, 2017 11:07 pm

During the 2016 elections, the National Education Association spent millions targeting ballot initiatives, donating to groups such as the Massachusetts-based Save Our Public Schools, the Committee to Keep Georgia Schools, and Citizens who Support Maine Public Schools. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Teachers union spent $12 milion to sway 2016 ballot initiatives

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2017 11:38 pm

The National Labor Relations Board's members are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, but it otherwise operates independently. The confirmation of business lawyer John Ring would ensure that the NLRB has a Republican-appointed majority through at least 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

White House close to picking new labor law enforcer

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2017 8:12 pm

The move places an awkward spotlight on the SEIU, which has been unenthusiastic about letting its own organizers organize. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Union says it has organized minimum wage activists

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2017 7:09 pm

Cindy Estrada, vice president of United Auto Workers, was renominated to the post Thursday, virtually ensuring she'll remain in the position near the top of the group embroiled in an ongoing corruption scandal. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Top UAW official re-elected as feds investigate her role in corruption scandal

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2017 12:30 am

A recent brief filed by the plaintiffs in the case of Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees heavily cites decisions made by the Supreme Court in the last seven years to argue that public-sector unions should not have the right to force government workers to pay them regular "security fees." (iStock)

Critics of public-sector unions cite justices in Supreme Court filing

Sean Higgins · November 30, 2017 11:50 pm

The crisis was so severe that raising the premiums would not solve the problem and may even make it worse, the director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation told Congress. (@EdWorkforce/Twitter)

Pension premiums ‘too low for too long,’ government monitor says

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2017 9:19 pm

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's multiemployer pension program protects 10 million workers and retirees in about 1,400 plans, but those plans have been troubled for years. (iStock)

Multiemployer pension plans in ‘dire’ shape, government monitor says

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2017 2:00 pm

Lani Short is press secretary for Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Rep. Phil Roe’s spokeswoman says her dad motivated her to try politics

Sean Higgins · November 28, 2017 5:01 am

The group's head, James O'Keefe, claimed that while their cover was blown by a Post story that afternoon (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Project Veritas attempts to fundraise off botched Washington Post sting

Sean Higgins · November 28, 2017 12:43 am

In previous years, United Food and Commercial Workers claimed that it would hold protests at hundreds of Walmarts across the country and that this was part of a rising movement of workers. In 2014, for example, the union announced it would hold events at 1,600 locations. 2017, however, marks the third year in a row that UFCW wasn't mounting such an effort, a tacit concession that Walmart had outlasted the union. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Union Walmart protests fizzle as a Black Friday tradition

Sean Higgins · November 24, 2017 5:01 am

Canada and Mexico have been resisting U.S. demands for a radical rewrite of the 1993 deal. The situation has heightened concern among business groups that President Trump will follow through with his earlier threats to pull the U.S. out of the deal. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump administration concerned over ‘lack of progress’ in NAFTA talks

Sean Higgins · November 22, 2017 4:02 pm