Maryland’s top court publicly kicked off its 2015-2016 term Wednesday by considering whether union members have a right to union representation when being investigated by their employers for possible criminal conduct.

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More companies may be held responsible for labor-law violations committed by the contractors they hire under a decision by a politically split U.S. labor board in a closely watched case.

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The effort to form a faculty union at Goucher College has been delayed after the school’s administration contested a NLRB ruling. Some faculty members are getting irritated.

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Union members alleging harm by their colleagues need not exhaust the organization’s internal dispute procedures but can head straight to court if money damages are unavailable under the union’s process, Maryland’s top court said in affirming a transit worker’s $425,000 defamation award against his union local and its president.

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Union membership in the United States is down slightly, accounting for just over 11 percent of the workforce last year, the Labor Department reported Friday. That’s just a fractional drop from the year before. The department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

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The station's employees recently voted on the issue, but the vote is being challenged.

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Thousands of independent, state-approved home- and childcare providers in Maryland could have the ability to opt out of union dues under a ruling issued Tuesday by the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public sector unions Monday, ruling that thousands of home health care workers in Illinois cannot be required to pay fees that help cover a union's costs of collective bargaining.

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Delegates to the United Auto Workers convention have voted to raise dues by 25 percent to shore up the union's finances, the first increase in 47 years.

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Labor regulators are trying once again to streamline the process in which workers decide whether to join labor unions, a move sure to reignite the bitter debate between union advocates and employers that seek to discourage workers from unionizing.

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