Labor
GOP bashes labor board
July 11, 2011Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.
Read moreAgainst the odds, CWA fights for “good jobs, strong communities”
July 11, 2011The Communications Workers of America is stressing "movement building" as its convention opens in Las Vegas this week.
Read moreObama defends collective bargaining on Twitter
July 8, 2011Obama was using Twitter to go over the heads of the press corps, and to address people who don't read papers or watch TV but rely on social media.
Read moreFarm workers protest veto of Calif. card check bill
July 6, 2011California's Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have allowed farm workers to use the card check method to unionize. Brown refused to meet with the farm workers and the 25 legislators that...
Read moreNational Writers Union fights for writers in Internet age
July 6, 2011Whole industries have grown up which hire writers into "content farms," paying them pennies to create verbal statements on virtually every subject.
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