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FILE - A &quot;for sale&quot; sign hangs from a post outside of a vacant business building in Belleville, N.J., Thursday, May 3, 2018. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday, July 27, raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in three decades to tame high inflation. By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Government should go back to work

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Buildings stand in the Milwaukee skyline, Sept. 6, 2022, in Milwaukee. Elected officials voted Thursday, July 27, 2023, to nearly double Milwaukee County's sales tax, two weeks after the city of Milwaukee approved a local sales tax increase as part of a bipartisan plan to avoid bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Milwaukee County approves sales tax increase as part of plan to avoid bankruptcy

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

McDonald’s fined for child labor violations in Louisiana, Texas

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Illustration on the need for union reform by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Union’s latest trick: Forcing employers to pay for strikes against themselves

By Rick Berman

UPS teamsters and workers hold a rally, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Atlanta, as a national strike deadline nears. UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, July 25, 2023, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) **FILE**

UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

UPS Teamsters and workers hold a rally, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Atlanta, as a national strike deadline nears. The Teamsters said Friday that they will resume contract negotiations with UPS, marking an end to a stalemate that began two weeks ago when both sides walked away from talks while blaming each other. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

A UPS strike could be just around the corner. Here’s what you need to know

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In this April 18, 2017, file photo, a FedEx cargo plane sits idle during the day at Richmond International Airport in Sandston, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

FedEx pilots reject contract deal as negotiations continue

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

UPS teamsters and workers hold a rally, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Atlanta, as a national strike deadline nears. UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, July 25, 2023, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) **FILE**

Teamsters win deal with UPS as unions buck businesses from coast to coast

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

United Parcel Service driver Hudson de Almeida steers through a neighborhood while delivering packages, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Haverhill, Mass. UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, July 25, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, FILE )

UPS and Teamsters avoid historic strike with tentative contract

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference, Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Richmond, California. (AP Photo/Adam Beam) ** FILE **

California moves to protect countertop makers from lung disease

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. A federal appeals court Friday, July 21, said it will reconsider its March ruling that Musk unlawfully threatened employees with a loss of stock options in a 2018 Twitter post amid an organizing effort by the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

Threat or not? Elon Musk gets new hearing on tweet about Tesla workers’ stock amid UAW union effort

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Medical consultant members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, as consultants in England are taking industrial action for the first time in more than a decade, Thursday July 20, 2023. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)

U.K. health services crippled as thousands of doctors walk out over pay dispute

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Fluids are controlled in an operating room in a hospital in Jackson, Tenn., on June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Biden administration asks employers to give more help to workers who lose Medicaid

By Tom Murphy - Associated Press

UPS teamsters and workers hold a rally in downtown Los Angeles, as a national strike deadline nears on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. A little more than a week after contract talks between United Parcel Service and the union representing 340,000 of its workers broke down, UPS said it will begin training nonunion employees in the U.S. to step in should there be a strike, which the union has vowed to do if no agreement is reached by the end of this month. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

UPS to offer better deal to Teamsters ahead of next week’s talks

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Brinks armored-truck driver shoots person dead in Prince George’s County Starbucks

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to the media prior to signing into law a bill expanding access to abortions later in pregnancy, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine governor vetoes bill to let minimum wage law apply to farm workers

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President Joe Biden speaks at a shipyard in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. Biden is visiting the shipyard to push for a strong role for unions in tech and clean energy jobs. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)

Biden cheers unions as strike threats from coast to coast jeopardize U.S. economy

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 19, 2023 in Washington. Biden will court unions as a cornerstone of the country's economic future with a speech on Thursday at a Philadelphia shipyard — right as more major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden pushes a strong role for unions in tech jobs, even as potential strikes are on the horizon

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

Twitter logos hang outside the company's offices in San Francisco, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Ex-employee files lawsuit accusing Twitter of targeting him for layoffs due to his age

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The Dollar General store is pictured, Aug. 3, 2017, in Luther, Okla. Dollar General violated federal labor law and “clearly intended to interfere” with worker rights in efforts to quell unionization at a Connecticut store, a National Labor Relations Board judge said Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Dollar General on the hook for $17 million in workplace-safety fines

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times