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Oklahoma repeals collective bargaining for city workers

April 29, 2011 By Special to People’s World

Oklahoma is expected to pass a measure that would repeal the rights of non-uniformed state employees to bargain for their wages and working conditions.

Must pension funds prove losses before they can sue?

April 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Must public pension funds prove they lost money before they can sue as a class against the corporations involved? That's the problem the Supreme Court wrestled with, in a case that pitted a non-profit foundation against...

Black lawmakers fight for immigrant rights

April 28, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Despite the GOP's nationwide push for anti-immigrant laws, Black Democratic lawmakers are denouncing such measures and say their communities support the struggle for immigrant rights.

Drive opens to repeal union-busting Ohio law

April 27, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Tens of thousands of petitions are hitting the streets of Ohio to repeal Senate Bill 5, a drastic union-busting law led by the Republican-controlled state legislature and signed by Gov. John Kasich.

Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?

April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A 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.