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2 months ago | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week. The decision, which was handed down just a year after the federal rule went into effect, poses a significant challenge to President Biden’s 2022 Executive Order mandating that federal contractors working on large projects must negotiate job site-specific collective bargaining agreements.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
Throughout her presentation, former public school teacher and anti-union activist Rebecca Friedrichs led participants in a simple chant. “Education?” she offered. “Cartel!” they had quickly learned to respond, though somewhat feebly at first. “A minus,” she gently chided, garnering chuckles.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
It’s been a bad year for advocates of ranked-choice voting reforms. Legislatures in five states banned the reform outright, as did voters in Missouri. And voters in four states — Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon — rejected referendums on adopting the new system. Only in the District of Columbia did a majority vote in favor of adopting the reform. However, Democratic strategists and funders behind this year’s push for RCV may be able to learn from the losses.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Juliana Broad
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy. Since Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, election deniers have come to outnumber other election administrators in 15 counties in key swing states, leading voting rights advocates to warn that their efforts to delay vote counts could create uncertainty and allow for the spread of disinformation.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
Since Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, election deniers have come to outnumber other election administrators in 15 counties in key swing states, leading voting rights advocates to warn that their efforts to delay vote counts could create uncertainty and allow for the spread of disinformation.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
Just before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting in July, a former Oklahoma legislator and convicted felon reached out to ALEC state chairs to market a campaign data management platform favored by the Republican National Committee (RNC). “As a former state senator, I remember not too long ago using paper, pencil, and clipboard as I went door to door in targeted precincts,” wrote Kyle Loveless in an email obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
A recent Arizona primary election sheds light on the entrenched power of the state’s utilities, with critics worried that more state representatives may work at the behest of the utilities instead of focusing on much-needed reforms to accelerate Arizona’s move towards renewable energy.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
washingtonspectator.org | Juliana Broad
This article is published in partnership with the The Center for Media and Democracy. The appearance of Teamsters president Sean O’Brien at the Republican convention last month was the most public salvo yet in an otherwise quiet conservative debate: whether, and how, to embrace labor, and what to do about the union question.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Juliana Broad
Starting Tuesday, public school teachers in one of the country’s largest school districts began voting on whether to keep their current union—a longstanding local affiliate of a national teachers union—or join a newly formed employee organization that has the financial backing of a notorious anti-union advocacy group. The vote is a test case for a novel experiment: whether a group dedicated to dismantling public sector unions can successfully seed a competing union.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
exposedbycmd.org | Juliana Broad
Starting today, public school teachers in one of the country’s largest school districts are voting on whether to keep their current union — a longstanding local affiliate of a national teachers union — or join a newly formed employee organization that has the financial backing of a notorious anti-union advocacy group. The vote is a test case for a novel experiment: whether a group dedicated to dismantling public sector unions can successfully seed a competing union.
