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U.S. DOE’s special education office gutted

The Trump administration is targeting the jobs of more than 450 workers in the U.S. Department of Education as part of a reduction-in-force during the ongoing government shutdown. Among the casualties would be the office responsible for oversight of...

10,000 jobs at risk as judge halts layoffs

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals were illegal.

Federal workers lose union rights

The Trump administration has unilaterally stripped hundreds of thousands of workers at four federal agencies of their union contracts after a federal appeals court overruled an injunction that had halted the plans. 


Vouchers hurt Florida schools

Two years after Florida expanded a law allowing tax dollars to fund private school scholarships, school districts across Florida are facing declining enrollment and the loss of millions of dollars in public funding as more families opt for state...

U.S. DOE layoffs allowed to proceed

A US Supreme Court ruling allows the Trump administration to proceed with 1,400 layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education.

Teacher training for laid-off federal workers

Maryland is providing $1 million in grants to 11 in-state colleges and universities with the goal of helping federal employees who were laid off under the Trump administration to earn teaching licenses.

Federal visa pause affects K–12 schools

School districts that rely on international exchange programs to hire teachers to address shortages in some subject areas largely opt for J–1 cultural exchange visas. Such districts are feeling the impact of the Trump administration's pause on such...

Meatpackers win contract with pensions

A new contract between the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and one of the world’s largest meat companies establishes a pension plan — the first new defined-benefit retirement fund in the industry since 1986.

Bid to overturn Utah’s anti-union law

Weeks after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law prohibiting public employee unions from collective bargaining, a new labor-backed group called Protect Utah Workers is collecting signatures to put a referendum on the ballot to repeal it.

Federal union’s fight for survival

The National Treasury Employees Union has filed a lawsuit that seeks to block President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order revoking the collective bargaining rights of hundreds of thousands of unionized government employees.