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'DO NOT POST': Major Companies' Social Media Policies Deemed Unlawful

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In an effort to control employees' activities on Facebook and Twitter, some U.S. companies have instituted social media policies that ru...

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Officials Address Probe Involving Former Romney Adviser

The Huffington Post | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Tuesday addressed the recent resignation of their former colleague Terence Flynn...

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Official Resigns After Investigation Involving Former Romney Adviser

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.28.2012

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A member of the National Labor Relations Board resigned quietly over the holiday weekend after investigators found that he had leaked sensitive board ...

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Republican Leaves Labor Board Amid Leak Allegations

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned, the agency announced Sunday. Terence...

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Union Puts Bullseye Back On Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.25.2012

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Late last week, an administrative law judge in New York ruled that big-box retailer Target had violated labor law in the runup to a union election at ...

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What's It All About, Romney?

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.14.2012

For Mitt Romney, it's about exploiting the 99 percent for the profit of the 1 percent. That vulture capitalist philosophy is bad enough in the business world, but it's dead wrong for public service.

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Romney Adviser Left Amid Ethics Investigation: Aide

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A top labor adviser to GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stepped down from his volunteer role with the campaign not long before he wa...

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Senate Republicans Join Legal Challenge Of Obama's Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are joining a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of some of President Barack Obama's recess appointments in Ja...

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Senate Gets Something Done

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 04.10.2012

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WASHINGTON — For a brief moment in a season of partisan rancor, the Democratic leader of the Senate and his Republican counterpart hit the pause...

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Dems Turn Up Heat On Romney Adviser In Ethics Probe

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Following the release of a potentially embarrassing inspector general's report, Democrats in the House and Senate are pressing for more ...

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Obama Labor Board Appointee Shared Insider Secrets, Violating Ethics Code, Report Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- An inspector general's investigation has found that a recent appointee to the National Labor Relations Board violated the agency's ethic...

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GOP Trying To Bury Investigation: House Dem

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Republicans Thursday accusing the GOP of trying to keep portions of an investigatio...

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Obama Official Promises Push For New Pro-Union Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board hopes to have another round of regulations in place by the end of the year that ...

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Workers' Right To Sue Employers In Flux

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Nlrb, Supreme Court, National Employment Law Project, Minimum Wage, Arbitration Agreements, Worker Rights, Employers, Labor Ready, Class Action Law Suits, Class Action Lawsuit, Laborready, Overtime, AT&T v Concepcion, National Labor Relations Board, Workers Rights, Business News

In 2010, Stephen Brown was living in York, Pa., and needed work. Most days Labor Ready, a temporary staffing company, had it. The company slogan highl...

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Recess Appointments and President Obama's Surprising Restraint

Peter M. Shane | Posted 03.07.2012

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For all the brouhaha surrounding President Obama's recess appointments this week of three new members for the National Labor Relations Board and of Ri...

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Inviting Fury From GOP, Obama Doubles Down On Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.05.2012

WASHINGTON -- Doubling down on President Barack Obama's bold recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, t...

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Labor Board Approves New Rules That May Help Boost Membership

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 02.20.2012

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WASHINGTON — In a win for organized labor, the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday approved sweeping new rules that would speed the pace...

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The Best and Worst Moments for Workers in 2011

Kimberly Freeman Brown | Posted 02.15.2012

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From Wisconsin to Washington, D.C., on the football field and the factory floor, we've seen unprecedented attacks on working families from big corporations and their friends in elected office.

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Eight-Month Political Spat Ends

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Boeing, Nlrb, Lafe Solomon, Economy, Boeing NLRB Lawsuit, Jobs, Lindsey Graham, National Labor Relations Board, Labor Unions, Labor, Video, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Machinists, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Boeing 737, Boeing 787, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Bringing a months-long saga to a close, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced Friday that it has withdrawn a controversial...

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Tire Company Accused Of Unfair Labor Practices During Lockout

AP | By JOHN SEEWER | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, Union Labor, Lockout, Ohio, United Steelworkers, Cooper Tire, Unions, National Labor Relations Board, Union Labor Laws, Business News

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Factory workers who have been locked out for over a week accused Cooper Tire of unfair labor practices, accusing the company of asking...

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Boeing Workers Union Approves 4-Year Contract Extension

AP | By GENE JOHNSON | Posted 12.08.2011

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SEATTLE -- Applause and cheers rang out after Unionized Boeing Machinists voted overwhelmingly to approve a four-year contract extension – a dea...

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GOP Loses Major Talking Point

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Machinists union announced Wednesday that it had reached a tentative four-year labor agreement with the Boeing Company, a developmen...

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Republicans Maneuvering To Quash New Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 01.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday moved ahead with plans to speed the pace of union elections, even as Republicans in...

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GOP and Chamber of Commerce's War Over the Bulletin Board

Peter Dreier | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Nlrb, Labor, Chamber of Commerce, Wagner Act, Labor Unions, National Labor Relations Board, Unions, National Association of Manufacturers, Business News

Even with such lopsided pro-management laws, big business isn't satisfied. America's employers would prefer to keep their workers' rights a well-guarded secret. Thus, the corporate outrage over the 11-inch by 17-inch poster.

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Video Mocks GOP, Business Groups For 'Hysteria' Over Unions

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Back in August, federal regulators issued a rule requiring businesses to hang posters informing employees of their rights to collective ...

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