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GOP bashes labor board

July 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.

Against the odds, CWA fights for “good jobs, strong communities”

July 11, 2011 By Teresa Albano

The Communications Workers of America is stressing "movement building" as its convention opens in Las Vegas this week.

Farm workers protest veto of Calif. card check bill

July 6, 2011 By John Wojcik

California's Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have allowed farm workers to use the card check method to unionize. Brown refused to meet with the farm workers and the 25 legislators that...

Largest education union endorses Obama

July 5, 2011 By John Wojcik

The 3.2-million-member National Education Association has endorsed President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

Uranium plant, run by scabs, fined for toxic leak

July 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

An accident at a uranium-processing plant in Metropolis, Ill, shows the danger of using scab labor in a plant that requires sophisticated and trained workers.