Labor
NEWS ANALYSIS Getting closer than ever to majority signup
July 21, 2009Speculation in the major media about the alleged “dropping” of majority signup from the Employee Free Choice Act, coming now as the nation is on the verge of radical labor law reform, must be viewed, at...
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Reports of the death of union card check still premature
July 18, 2009A report in the New York Times today that says senators have “dropped” the majority sign-up provision of the Employee Free Choice Act is not accurate. A spokesperson for Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who...
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Workers picket Karl Rove’s $1,000-a-plate Big Biz dinner
July 17, 2009ST. LOUIS -- 'The Employee Free Choice Act is exactly what it says. A free choice for workers,' Ben Harmon, financial secretary for the greater St. Louis United Auto Workers union CAP Council, told the World....
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Worker rights are civil rights 1,500 march in Arkansas for Employee Free Choice
July 17, 2009LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — With Central High School as a backdrop, the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act took center stage here in this southern state. About 1,500 people rallied and marched July 11 in...
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Communications workers and AT&T strike Midwest deal
July 17, 2009Nearly 20,000 AT&T workers in the Midwest will be voting on a tentative contract that their union, the Communications Workers of America, spent the last half year negotiating. The tentative agreement, reached yesterday, will be submitted...
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