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NLRB has airtight case against Boeing

September 28, 2011 By John Wojcik

Republicans are clearly using the National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing to launch a bigger, right-wing assault on individual worker rights and collective bargaining.

OSHA warns hair salons on worker exposure to formaldehyde

September 27, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The federal agency is warning the nation's hair salons - again - about the exposure of their low-paid female workers to formaldehyde present in hair smoothing and straightening products.

Paid sick days the law now in Seattle

September 26, 2011 By John Wojcik

Seattle's mayor signed the historic bill Friday. Every worker in the city, depending upon his or her conditions of employment, is now guaranteed five to nine sick days per year.

Oklahoma labor commissioner calls public workers “feral hogs”

September 22, 2011 By J. Shepherd

The ideology expressed by Costello and his ilk is dangerously close to the rhetoric of eugenicists, the pre-Nazi pseudo-scientific movement.

400 union women at confab demand equality and union rights

September 16, 2011 By Beatrice Lumpkin

Over 400 union women came to the Coalition of Labor Union Women's 16th Biennial Convention in Orlando, September 7-10, to demand equality and to defend union rights. The women came from many different unions to speak...