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Worker receives mixed verdict in court battle

January 12, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

What happens if a city trains a police officer on condition she stays five years on the job, but she resigns after two years?

How to read those December unemployment figures

January 10, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

The nation's unemployment rate declined 0.4 percent in December but only because unprecedented numbers have dropped out of the workforce altogether.

Law professors support Hilton workers

January 10, 2011 By Henry Millstein

The Association of American Law Schools is holding its national conference at the boycotted hotel, but organizers of over two-thirds of the conference events held their sessions at another venue.

Labor board calls for new election at Berkeley Bowl

January 7, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

A long-simmering labor struggle at the popular Berkeley Bowl Marketplace supermarket has taken a new turn with the National Labor Relations Board's year-end announcement that it has ordered a rerun of a June 2010 election to...

Big business drives Illinois anti-teacher bill

January 6, 2011 By Lance Cohn And John Bachtell

CHICAGO - Under the guise of "school reform," big corporate foundations, banking and speculative hedge fund investors are pulling out all stops to ram an anti-teacher measure through the Illinois state legislature.