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LABOR UNIONS

Labor unions are legally recognized representatives for workers. The most prominent unions are found among public sector employees, including police officers and teacher. This topic covers the news and analysis on labor unions in the U.S. and abroad.

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The Green Energy Reality Show – Starring Labor Unions, Solar...more

NYT ran a story on the front of the business section last week that dances around the question of whether labor unions...

Union membership rises for second straight yearmore

Union membership jumped to 12.4 percent of the nation's work force last year, despite widespread job losses in a...

U.S. Labor Groups Reach an Accord on Immigrationmore

The nation’s two major labor federations have agreed for the first time to join forces to support an overhaul of the...

Anxious Japanese Are Working Themselves to Deathmore

Japan's export-based economy showing signs of recovery, many of the data coming out of Tokyo lately are positive.

FedEx needs you… not the unionsmore

After a pro-labor Congress took over Washington and the fall of Detroit, the nation’s largest employers are doing all...

7,500 G.M. Workers Accept Latest Buyoutmore

General Motors said today that more than 7,500 members of the United Automobile Workers union who work in its factories...

S.E.I.U. and Nurses Union End Bitter Rivalrymore

Two of the nation’s fastest-growing labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses...

Spilling the Beans About Starbucks' Union-Busting Tacticsmore

The National Labor Relations Board has repeatedly found Starbucks guilty of illegally terminating, harassing,...

Workers hold Caterpillar bosses hostage in Francemore

(AP) — Angry French workers facing layoffs at a Caterpillar factory detained four of their bosses Tuesday at the...

Unions Get Card-Checkmatedmore

what they saw as a major threat -- a proposal in Congress to make it easier to form labor unions. At each place...

Wal-Mart Meets Union Opposition to China Job Cutsmore

BEIJING -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s plans to restructure its large Chinese work force hit a stumbling block amid...

Talk Me Down: Employee Free Choice Actmore

As you may know, or may have guessed based on our content here and on our website, as a nonprofit Winning Workplaces...

Is “Political Extremism” the next supply chain risk?more

Last week, the New York Times reported that “solid majority of people in the major Western democracies expect a rise in...

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Labor and business, joined in health care cause,...more

Labor unions and business groups have teamed up in a multimillion-dollar national lobbying campaign to pressure...

Recession fuels debate over bill for labor-union sign-upmore

There was always going to be debate between unions and employers over the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, which...

Official: Obama to repeal 4 Bush executive ordersmore

President Barack Obama intends to overturn four Bush-era executive orders that unions opposed, a labor official said...

Auto Workers to hold emergency meeting on bailoutmore

Local United Auto Workers leaders from across the country will hold an emergency meeting in Detroit on Wednesday to...

UAW Fades as Union Shrinks in Size, Powermore

The United Auto Workers could emerge from the government-led restructurings of GM and Chrysler in a relatively solid...

GM Canada says close to receiving short-term loansmore

GM Canada to slash hourly Canadian work force by more than half; active labor costs to drop 50% once CAW deal secured

Labor Calls for Unity After Years of Divisionmore

The presidents of 12 of the nation’s largest labor unions called Wednesday for reuniting the American labor movement,...

Up to 5,500 mining jobs to be cutmore

Marikana mine in the North West province and 1,500 in the Limpopo province had been agreed with unions.

Starbucks facing third anti-union case in Michiganmore

Starbucks facing third anti-union case in Michigan Starbucks is to begin proceedings Wednesday in a third case in which...

Wage and Hour Cases May Fuel Uptick in Business Lawsuits | workforce.more

Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, such litigation has tripled in the past decade, and that trend shows no...

McDonald's Corp. News | Chicago Business News, Analysis &...more

Union activists distributed fliers at nearly 100 McDonald’s restaurants nationwide Thursday encouraging workers and...

$73/hr Figure Skews Debate of a Bailout for Detroitmore

That figure — repeated on television and in newspapers as the average pay of a Big Three autoworker — has become a big...

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