A total of 400 local government employees in New York outside New York City were paid more than $300,000 during fiscal year 2025-26, the large majority of them police officers on Long Island, according to the Empire Center’s…
A recent internal investigation concluded that some Internal Revenue Service employees improperly used their official access to snoop through the tax records of public figures.The Treasury Inspector General for Tax…
Wake County leaders want to build affordable housing for teachers and public school employees. The idea was presented earlier this week to a joint meeting of the Wake County School Board and Wake County Board of…
Democrat-run New York City is dismissing Haitian workers after federal courts ordered the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate their Temporary Protected Status could continue.The city was legally compelled to separate…
Twenty Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) employees collected more than $400,000 each in total pay last year, while average pay agencywide rose three percent, according to 2025 payroll data posted today on…
Key TakeawaysPublic employees have a First Amendment right to join or not join a union, and they cannot be required to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment, as the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in its 2018…
Two U.S. Forest Service employees were held hostage for hours throughout Thursday night in a Northern California national forest.The federal employees were freed early Friday after being zip-tied and held at gunpoint for…
Washington Policy Center (WPC) often hears public employees say they didn’t know they had a choice about union membership. That’s not surprising. Government employers generally don’t provide information about this right, and…
College athletics is approaching a crossroads. After years of rapid, sweeping change in student-athlete compensation practices that have left a patchwork of state regulation in its wake, some in Congress now propose to …
Three takeaways:— Public workers can join or not join unions.— Washington’s public employers should stop using government payroll systems to collect union dues for private organizations.— Public employers should provide…
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