workers rights – Page 114

Union leaders say ”right to work” will boomerang in Indiana

February 9, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Indiana became the nation's 23rd "Right to Work" state. Union leaders blasted the legislation, and predicted it'll boomerang at the ballot box this fall.

Educators tell labor board: Restore our rights

February 9, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Graduate assistants and teaching assistants at New York University want their union rights back.

Biden: GOP doesn’t understand middle class

February 3, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Most of his speech alternated between jabs at GOP leaders, and defense of the Obama administration's actions.

U.S. steelworkers campaign to free Colombian political prisoners

February 3, 2012 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

"We are working in close conjunction with Justice for Colombia in Great Britain on the political prisoners campaign," says USW Senior Counsel Dan Kovalik.

GOP forces anti-labor provisions into transport bills

February 3, 2012 By John Wojcik

That rewrite, an attempt to end a fight over union recognition votes at airlines and railroads, ended up leaving workers and their unions with the short end of the stick.