Labor
High Court favors Chicago Black firefighters in discrimination suit
May 26, 2010The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of 6,000 Black applicants for firefighting jobs here, adding they could proceed with a lawsuit that accuses the city of using a racially discriminatory hiring exams.
Read moreR.I. calls truce in war on teachers
May 25, 2010Ninety-three Central Falls teachers and school professionals got their jobs back in a hard-fought agreement this month, but what it really means will not be known for a while.
Read moreHundreds of union janitors fired under pressure from Feds
May 21, 2010Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers.
Read moreUFCW, SEIU lead suit against discriminatory Arizona law
May 20, 2010PHOENIX (PAI) - The United Food and Commercial Workers and the Service Employees with civil liberties groups are leading, a class-action suit to stop Arizona's new law targeting people based solely on the suspicion - due...
Read moreChicago transit workers: get trains and buses rolling again
May 18, 2010They appear everywhere in uniform and are a constant reminder of the high cost of the state budget crisis: they are the 1,200 Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) workers.
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