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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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Working America, Union Members Deliver for Health Care Reformmore

   Working America members in Louisiana and in several other states wrote thousands of letters to their senators urging...

City driving hard bargain with 3 employee unionsmore

(McClatchy-Tribune Informa) The city of Cedar Rapids has presented its initial bargaining position to three of the...

Join Tweet-a-Thon and Expose the Chamber of Commerce Fridaymore

   “U.S. Chamber of Greed” is a nice short tweet to start the day with a NotMyChamber Tweet-a-Thon.      Get set to...

Civil Unions For Austriamore

Austria has passed a comprehensive civil unions law, but part of the compromise with the country's right wing includes...

Labor and employment law and economicsmore

"Goodies for labor tucked away in health bill"more

There are lots of them, and they're bound to encourage more unionization among health care workers and others,...

Texas Accidentally Bans Straight Marriage - Law designed to forbid...more

Texas Accidentally Bans Straight Marriage - Law designed to forbid gay civil unions actually bars any unions: nixg:

Labor Denounces Judge in Gompers Casemore

Michelle Malkin: When Big Labor Bullies and Volunteers Collidemore

The Boy Scouts' motto is: Be prepared.

Woodside Says Pluto LNG Costs May Jump $1 Billion as Labor Expenses...more

...because of higher-than-expected labor expenses.

Trade unions, AFR, out of the loop on jobsmore

Two stories in The Australian Financial Review and other papers this morning illustrate just how out of touch both the...

Global: Unions shame Vale CFO in Madrid and protest in Seoulmore

LabourStart headline - Source: Int'l Metalworkers Federation...

Volvo unions query Geely about fundingmore

Labour leaders at Volvo Cars planned to press Zhejiang Geely Holding Group to disclose where it was getting the...

The Rich Are Different. They Have Jobsmore

      Wall Street doesn’t look back at the disaster it wrecked on Main Street.    Goldman Sachs, one of the Wall Street...

Senate Health Care Bill: Moving in the Right Directionmore

   Around the country, union volunteers are taking grassroots action to get their senators to support real health care...

Hundreds in Airline Industry Gain a Union Voice on the Jobmore

More than 400 flight attendants and 170 pilots now have strong union voices after voting to join the Flight...

Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shoremore

It turns out a Texas windmill farm developer’s request last month for nearly half a billion in stimulus funds to create...

U.S. Chamber Extremism Protested in San Francisco, Toomore

Two weeks ago, Tom Donohue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce brought their extreme right-wing road show to Philadelphia,...

Drummonds on Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption...more

...in the Louisiana Law Review: Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine to Allow the States to...

Today: National Day of Action to Stop Wage Theftmore

    Workers, community leaders and religious activists are holding rallies, prayer vigils and other actions in more...

American Rights at Work Honors Sweeney, Employee Free Choice Championsmore

AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney received the top honor at last night’s 5th annual American Rights at Work...

U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the...more

And they're not talking about labor unions.

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   This is one of the six finalists. Click here to see all.      The art on the left is just one of six fantastic...

RE: Companies That Unions Hatemore

Lew—apropos the Unions’ 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame, I “wonder” why they didn’t include the Union-owned General Motors...

Colbert Report Echoes OpenLeft's Coverage of Trade/Child Labormore

...made with child, convict or slave labor.

Top Sources: Labor Unions

  • recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
  • Things with Wings
  • CFA Institute Financial NewsBrief
  • blog.winningworkplaces.org
  • The Economist: Full print edition
  • US labour news from LabourStart
  • BlurtIt
  • dailyreckoning.com
  • AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
  • BusinessWeek

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