Labor
Union happy with new Obama crackdown on mine owners
February 8, 2011Mine workers welcome Obama's plan to make it easier in cracking down on coal companies that are constant safety violators. However specific rules need to be enforced in order to further erode the systemic problem, unions...
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GOP uses “budget cutting” to attack unions
February 7, 2011An influential right-wing group among the House's new GOP majority, the 170-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), is using "budget cutting" as an excuse to attack federal worker union reps.
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Obama renominates his pick for labor board
February 7, 2011Showing he won't take the Senate GOP "no's" for an answer, President Barack Obama on Jan. 26 renominated former top union attorney Craig Becker as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
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Court green lights union pension lawsuit vs. financier
February 4, 2011BOSTON (PAI) - In one of the first cases affecting unions and their members to emerge from Wall Street's financial finagling, a federal appeals court in Boston gave the go-ahead to a class action suit by...
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Neighborhood Grocery Initiative takes on non-union megastores
February 4, 2011United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 in northern California says the year 2011 poses unprecedented challenges for its members working in the grocery industry.
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