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Sean Higgins is senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily. A Virginia native, he now lives in Arlington.

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  • Ruling on NLRB recess appointments could void 1,569 cases

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Or about 673 published decisions and 896 unpublished ones. That is the conclusion reached by a National Right To Work Legal Foundation study of cases where the National Labor Relations Board reached a ruling without having a valid legal quorum. An Appeals Court ruled in the January...

  • Top Dem calls on Labor nominee Thomas Perez to release emails

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

    Rep. Elijah Cummings,  D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joined Chairman Darrell Issa in demanding that the White House’s nominee to be labor secretary, Thomas Perez, turn over some 1,200 private emails. The change is notable because...

  • Biden: I oppose Keystone pipeline, but I'm 'in the minority'

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

    Vice President Joe Biden reportedly told and activist with the Sierra Club that he personally opposes the $7 billion US-Canada pipeline project, but also indicated that others in the White House do not share his view. In a blog post yesterday at the Sierra Club’s website, activist Elaine...

  • Louisiana Supreme Court strikes down state’s school voucher system

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

    The justices today upheld a Baton Rouge district court ruling, stating that the legislation that created the state’s school voucher program was unconstitutional. “After reviewing the record, the legislative instruments and the constitutional provisions at issue, we agree with the district...

  • Senate committee postpones vote on Labor Secretary nominee Perez

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee announced today that it was postponing Thursday’s vote on the White House’s nominee to be Labor Secretary, Thomas Perez. It had been scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, but has been rescheduled for May 16. No explanation was...

  • Court overturns NLRB workplace poster rule

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Bloomberg Businessweek reports: A U.S. labor board rule requiring companies to install workplace posters on union rights was thrown out by an appeals court that said the regulation violates employers’ rights to free speech. A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington...

  • Sean Higgins: Michigan teacher unions want long-term right to rule public schools

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Michigan recently became the 24th state to adopt a right-to-work law, meaning unions there can no longer either force workers to join or pay dues. The practice is dying hard in the state, though. Mike Van Beek, education policy analyst at the conservative Mackinac Center, reports that about...

  • Congressmen accuse Labor nominee Thomas Perez of failing to comply with subpoena

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Reps. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and Andy Harris, R-Md., alleged in a letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the White House’s nominee to head up the Labor Department, withheld information from a congressional subpoena. The subpoena ordered...

  • Unions try to link Walmart organizing effort to '60s civil rights crusades

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    The Nation’s Josh Eidelson reports on the latest effort by organized labor to crack the so-far-impervious-to-unionization stance of Walmart: Following a five-day organizing training and strategy summit in Birmingham, members of the labor group OUR Walmart will announce a plan to send civil...

  • How Europe went from champion of carbon cuts to top importer of US coal

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    The Washington Post has an informative piece up today about the European Union’s travails in trying to adopt a carbon emission rationing system. To briefly sum up, the EU adopted a massive cap and trade program intended to limit emissions by making allowances to emit carbon a commodity that...


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