Labor
Dock, maritime workers making significant unity moves
September 23, 2011In the latest effort to strengthen labor's hand in the global economy, West Coast dockworkers this month welcomed pilots at the Panama Canal into their union. And longshore unions on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are...
Read moreWashington state unions see arrests on docks as part of pattern
September 23, 2011The arrests union officers and the wives and mothers of 10 longshoremen are seen by union members here as part of a major assault underway against this state's labor movement.
Read moreOklahoma labor commissioner calls public workers “feral hogs”
September 22, 2011The ideology expressed by Costello and his ilk is dangerously close to the rhetoric of eugenicists, the pre-Nazi pseudo-scientific movement.
Read moreJersey casino fights labor board
September 20, 2011At issue is the hotel's court challenge to NLRB's certification of the United Auto Workers to represent the casino's full and part-time dealers.
Read moreUnions, not “right to work” laws, bring back an automaker
September 19, 2011The labor movement is a key part of a recently successful effort to get a company to build a plant here that will produce diesel/electric vehicles.
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