Some of Pennsylvania's most powerful labor unions have removed a key hurdle for workers who wish to resign their membership following a series of class action lawsuits. 
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's anti-lobbying tax appears to leave union lobbyists and other Democratic interests untouched. 
Public sector unions in Alaska will no longer be able to automatically collect dues from workers after Republican governor Mike Dunleavy instituted the nation's first statewide "opt-in" system of unionization. 
Republican leaders called on House Democrats to investigate widespread corruption within the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, a longtime Democratic ally. 
Top Democratic presidential candidates took more than $100,000 from United Auto Workers and rushed to show solidarity with striking GM employees despite an ongoing federal probe into allegations of corruption at the UAW. 
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) once cribbed a union interest group's talking points in an effort to influence a pension reform ballot initiative. 
The Center for American Progress scuttled plans to relaunch ThinkProgress after recently fired staffers accused the liberal think tank of union busting. 
An airline union president promised there would be blood in a contract dispute with American Airlines just weeks before a member allegedly sabotaged a plane. 
Labor unions contributed more than $1.6 billion to left-wing political advocacy groups between 2010 and 2018, according to a new report. Organized labor's political spending stands in stark contrast to how membership votes. 
Pennsylvania teachers' unions continue to include mandatory fees from non-members in new contracts despite a Supreme Court decision that declared coercive payments unconstitutional, according to a lawsuit. 