worker rights
Efforts to slash Illinois public worker pensions collapse
June 1, 2012The legislative session was unable to reach an agreement. Gov. Quinn has promised to call a special summer session to pass pension reform legislation.
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Urge to lawmakers: Use Trans-Pacific trade pact to favor workers
May 31, 2012The AFL-CIO is urging Congress and the Obama administration to use negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Pact to redo U.S. trade policy to support workers.
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Striking workers assail Red Cross “union-avoidance plan”
May 31, 2012It tears Red Cross workers up to not be doing the jobs they love. But at some point, they have to protect their own lives and livelihoods too.
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NLRB official orders rerun recognition vote at Target store
May 30, 2012Saying Target illegally threatened to close its store if workers won a vote, a judge ordered a rerun election at the 268-worker store.
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Steelworkers remember martyrs, fight for living
May 29, 2012The Republic Steel mill in south Chicago is sacred ground for the American labor movement.
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