Labor
Airline unions create international alliance
April 26, 2011Fourteen unions from eight nations, all representing groups of airline workers, created an international alliance to strengthen themselves and their members against increasingly trans-national airline combinations.
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Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?
April 26, 2011A 30-month struggle by The News-paper Guild of New York with one of the world's big wire services, Thomson-Reuters over "tweets" critical of working conditions.
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Florida labor fights “paycheck protection”
April 26, 2011Florida's labor movement is fighting against a bill, supported by the state's Chamber of Commerce and legislature, that would strip public sector unions of their right to engage in political activity.
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Relocating production line to avoid union breaks labor law
April 25, 2011The NLRB says Boeing's decision to locate its second assembly line for its new model "Dreamliner" super-jumbo passenger plane in non-union South Carolina, and not in its unionized plants in the Pacific Northwest, breaks labor law.
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May Day in Chicago: Labor to commemorate Haymarket martyrs
April 22, 2011It's just one word in labor history with a lot of associations: Haymarket.
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