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Union Membership Increases After Years Of Decline
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
After years of decline, Illinois union ranks in 2008 grew by 97,000 workers. [...] The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that membership in I...
How A Charter School Turns Union
Alexander Russo | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
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It seemed at first like the unionization effort at the KIPP school in Brooklyn might happen without too much conflict. By early February, however, reports started coming out about stalled negotiations and alleged intimidation by KIPP administrators.
Employee Free Choice Act: All You Need To Know
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
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Check back here for updates on the Employee Free Choice Act. The Employee Free Choice Act, sometimes called "card check," is legislation aimed at st...
Gingrich Joins Big Business "Horror Movie" Attacks vs. Workers' Call for Union Rights (Video)
Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
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Despite all the scare-mongering, union strategists are growing increasingly confident that they'll be able to hold on to the few past supporters of the legislation.
The Big Lie about the Employee Free Choice Act
Gerald McEntee | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
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America's top CEOs have declared their top legislative priority for 2009 -- to scuttle the bipartisan legislation that would restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Obama's Next Gauntlet: Reviving the Middle Class
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
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The campaign on EFCA will be fierce. Gaining 60 votes won't be easy. The business community will go all out, claiming that strong unions will ruin America, trample workers' freedoms, drive jobs abroad. But we've tried an economy with weak unions -- and that didn't work out so well. Obama is right to tee this up early even as he struggles to get the economy moving, to get the financial system reorganized, to move on health care and new energy. This is a fight that citizens across the country should join. It will be a critical building block of the new economy that we must construct from the ashes of the old.
Memo To Business: Only Unions Will Save Your Bottom Line
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
Henry Ford used to say that he wanted his workers to have enough money to buy his cars. For their own self-interest, business, and their Republican allies in Congress, should embrace broad unionization.
Union Allies Fight Back Against GOP "Meltdown Lobby" With IRS Complaint, Grass-Roots Campaigns
Art Levine | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
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Republican leaders and their conservative big business allies, including the Chamber of Commerce, have gone after workers' rights ...
A Victory for the Asian-American Community
Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
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The Filipino veterans have received their due, but Asian workers have not. It is up Asian activists to continue to educate and politicize our youth.
United Pilot Insults Sully
Lane Hudson | Posted 03.28.2009 | Home
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, if you are on the left side of the plane, you will see a spectacular view of New York City and US Airways' new runway, the Hudson River." Cute, right?
New Boon to Obama's Economic Plan: Solis Confirmed as Labor Secretary
Art Levine | Posted 03.27.2009 | Home
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With the pro-worker Hilda Solis now at the helm of the Labor Department, our country will have a better chance to fulfill the vision President Obama highlighted Tuesday night.
Solidarity for Never
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
In the wake of this economic meltdown, maybe it's time to put to rest the conservative canard that respecting workers' rights to unionize and to bargain collectively is tantamount to a communist coup d'etat.
New Report Reveals Why GOP Hates Unions: They Raise Wages, Boost Economy
Art Levine | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
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Big businesses and the GOP have taken a short-term, greedy look at their economic self-interest and determined they must fight the Employee Free Choice Act with all the weapons at their disposal.
Unions Plan EFCA Push As Solis Nears Confirmation
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
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President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, is set to be confirmed by the Senate a week from Tuesday. In the meantime, some...
Bill Clinton Will Have To Cross Picket Line For San Diego Speech
SanDiego.com | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
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Former President Bill Clinton will likely cross a picket line when he delivers a keynote speech at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego on...
Tom Geoghegan on The Interview Show
Mark Bazer | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago
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Congressional candidate Geoghegan sat down with me at the Hideout to discuss the economy and other issues in the race.
The CEO Pay Caps Are A Mirage
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
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If the point is to stop the legal looting of corporate treasuries and leave some money in the till for regular workers, when you get right down to it, the CEO pay caps aren't meaningful.
A Demand: Banks Getting Our Money Can't Oppose Unions
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
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The labor movement should call for a simple requirement: if you take taxpayer money, you may not oppose any attempt to unionize the workplace. You must remain neutral.
Unions Hold Firm on Employee Free Choice Act, Buoyed by Tough Ads, White House Support
Art Levine | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
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An aggressive new ad campaign launched Sunday against the lies about the Employee Free Choice Act have clearly boosted the union cause.
President Obama Wants You to Join the Union
Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
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On Friday, President Obama, a onetime organizer, had more words to say about unions, and they were the kind of explicit endorsement that we literally haven't heard from a president since FDR's day.
Employee Free Choice Act Gives Workers a Fair and Democratic Chance to Form Unions
Steve Rosenthal | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
Union representation elections currently have the deck is stacked against workers in winning the right to unite together. Anyone who thinks this is a fair and democratic process has obviously never been involved in it.
Alinsky's Legacy, Obama and Labor's Challenge
Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
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Until Obama, I had always viewed the White House as synonymous with "the boss" or the "management" of a facility who instills fear into workers when they try to organize.
A Labor Secretary Who is Actually Pro-Union
Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
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Once the employer realizes his/her employees are willing to stand up for better pay, more affordable healthcare, and better working conditions by forming a union, they begin to fight.
Obama Hosts Labor Leaders; Will Undo Bush Orders
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders Friday that he said should "level the playing field" for labor unions in...
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