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Teachers union leaders split as panel starts rewriting education law
April 17, 2015Leaders of the nation's two large teachers' unions are split on a bipartisan effort by a key Senate committee to rewrite the federal aid-to-education law.
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Teamsters: railroads won’t spend money on track maintenance
April 10, 2015"U.S. railroads now transport 400,000 tank-car loads of oil yearly, passing through thousands of cities, towns, and communities where we live."
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Two-tier wages to be key issue at UAW talks with Detroit three
April 9, 2015"A society built on low-wage jobs does not deliver purchasing power, it only increases the number of workers in poverty."
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Nurses take to streets again to push ‘Robin Hood Tax’
April 8, 2015"We need a robust tax on Wall Street trading to provide the revenue needed to invest in education, health and communities."
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USW local ratifies new pact with Honeywell, ends long lockout
April 3, 2015The plant was scheduled to reopen Apr. 1 but the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission must recertify the workers before all can return.
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Senate ‘vote-a-rama’ produces few wins for workers
April 1, 2015And the wins workers got, on amendments denouncing USPS cuts and advocating paid family and medical leave, may only be symbolic.
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Missouri unionists, businesses, officials mobilize vs. ‘right-to-work’
March 30, 2015They packed the Small Business Committee hearing room and offered detailed testimony on the benefits of unionization and the harm such a law would cause.
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Kelley of the Treasury Employees Union to retire in August
March 25, 2015Colleen M. Kelley, the NTEU president for the last 16 years, will retire at the end of the union's convention this August.
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