Public Workers

Attention lawmakers: Connecticut is not broke

July 1, 2011 By Art Perlo And Joelle Fishman

State workers in Connecticut are in a pitched battle to save their jobs and the services they provide.

Rahm Emanuel treading wrong path

July 1, 2011 By John Bachtell

It's pretty clear which side Rahm Emanuel is on.

1.3 million Ohioans say no to anti-labor law

June 30, 2011 By Rick Nagin And Bruce Bostick

The drive to repeal SB 5, the union-busting law that strips collective bargaining rights from public workers in Ohio, culminated in a massive "People's Parade" to deliver petitions with nearly 1.3 million signatures.

Bus drivers fed up, locked out, then fired

June 28, 2011 By Jason Gooljar

On June 13, the bus drivers of AFSCME Local 3001, who drive the Arlington County, Va., buses, made the declaration that they have had enough.

Attacks on labor end in a whimper

June 17, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg And St. Louis Labor Tribune

The third big front in the right-wing Republican-business state-by-state war on workers, in Missouri, ended when the state legislature adjourned in May.