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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.

750,000 walk off jobs in Britain

July 1, 2011 By Will Stone And Richard Bagley

Hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers the length and breadth of Britain defied slurs and threats Thursday to mount one of the biggest walkouts since the country's 1926 General Strike.

Judge backs labor board over Boeing

July 1, 2011 By John Wojcik

A federal judge threw out a motion by Boeing to dismiss an NLRB lawsuit that charged the company with illegally punishing union workers in Washington state by moving a new production line to South Carolina.

IKEA stacks deck against union backers

June 30, 2011 By John Wojcik

IKEA agreed to a union election date, but only after adding "team captains" to the pool in a move the Machinists union says is aimed at influencing the vote.