Labor
Chicago Teachers Union: Black teachers, students most affected by school closings
February 9, 2012CHICAGO - Fed up with discrimination, the Chicago Teachers Union filed a complaint Feb. 9 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging the Board of Education's mass teacher layoffs last year unfairly impacted African American teachers.
Read moreMissouri Republicans press slew of anti-immigrant bills
February 9, 2012The Missouri Legislature is debating anti-immigrant bills targeting students, non-English-speaking drivers and the federal government.
Read moreUnion leaders say ”right to work” will boomerang in Indiana
February 9, 2012Indiana became the nation's 23rd "Right to Work" state. Union leaders blasted the legislation, and predicted it'll boomerang at the ballot box this fall.
Read moreEducators tell labor board: Restore our rights
February 9, 2012Graduate assistants and teaching assistants at New York University want their union rights back.
Read moreLabor and business economists call “right to work” unworkable
February 7, 2012A pro-labor economist is saying that Republicans who think "right to work" laws will stimulate the economy in their states are dead wrong.
Read more