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Indy Occupy movement joins with labor unions in protest at Super Bowl Village

January 30, 2012 By Jason Jones

About 200 people including union members and the Occupy movement gathered on the south steps of the Indiana Statehouse recently to voice their outrage over the "right to work" bill.

Indiana House passes right to work for less bill

January 26, 2012 By John Wojcik

In an assault on workers and their unions in the heart of the once heavily industrialized and unionized Midwest, Indiana's Republican-controlled House passed a right to work for less bill yesterday.

In their war against workers, corporations increasingly choose lockouts

January 25, 2012 By John Wojcik

Employers have been engaging in class warfare for quite some time now. Recently they have added lockouts to the long list of weapons they have used to wage that warfare.

AFL-CIO calls for urgent action to stop Indiana “right-to-work”

January 23, 2012 By John Wojcik

The AFL-CIO has issued a national appeal for help to stop passage of a so-called "right-to-work" law in Indiana. "We are at war," the AFL-CIO appeal reads. "The assault on workers in Indiana continues."

AFL-CIO launches TV ad campaign

January 23, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO has launched an advertising campaign telling the country that union workers are just like everyone else - and that they deserve their rights.