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Political scientist Thomas R. Dye said that politics is about battling over scarce governmental resources: who gets them, where, when, why and how. [8] Since government makes the rules in a complex economy such as the United States, various organizations, businesses, individuals, nonprofits, trade groups, religions, charities and others—which are affected by these rules—will exert as much ...
Knox v. Service Employees International Union, 567 U.S. 298 (2012), is a United States constitutional law case. The United States Supreme Court held in a 7–2 decision that Dianne Knox and other non-members of the Service Employees International Union did not receive the required notice of a $12 million assessment the union charged them to raise money for the union's political fund.
Official website of the AFL–CIO, the largest federation of trade unions in the U.S. Official website of the Strategic Organizing Center (formerly the Change to Win Federation), the second-largest federation of trade unions in the U.S. The U.S. Labor Movement Is Popular, Prominent and Also Shrinking - The New York Times interactive (2022)
JR Bellace and AD Berkowitz, The Landrum–Griffin Act: Twenty Years of Federal Protection of Union Members' Rights (1979). 363 pp. H Benson, 'The Fight for Union Democracy' in SM Lipset, ed. Unions in Transition: Entering the Second Century (1986), pp 323–370; A Cox, 'The Role of Law in Preserving Union Democracy' (1959) 72(4) Harvard Law ...
Thousands of unionized retail workers from the U.S. Mid-Atlantic to the West Coast are lobbying regulators and lawmakers as part of a broader effort to nix the $25 billion merger between ...
According to the Center for Public Integrity, the AFL-CIO spent $26 million on federal lobbying between 2007 and 2012 and gave $7.4 million to super PACs during the 2011-2012 election cycle.
The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 is a statute enacted by the United States Congress to reduce the influence of lobbyists. The primary purpose of the Act was to provide information to members of Congress about those that lobby them. [1] The 1946 Act was replaced by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. [2]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A conservative Missouri activist has been ordered to follow the state's lobbying rules, even though he isn't paid, in a court ruling that could have wide-reaching ...