Labor
Labor board: Employers must prove hardship claims
June 13, 2011The top enforcement official of the National Labor Relations Board is telling his regional officers to look at employers' "inability to pay" claims and at specific union demands for financial data, simultaneously.
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Iranians release bus drivers union leader
June 10, 2011The leader of the independent bus drivers union in Tehran, Iran, was released on bond from Iranian prisons.
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Iraqi youth activists released from detention
June 8, 2011The four charged that they had been arrested for participating in demonstrations calling for political reform, ending corruption and providing services to the people.
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Unions and the middle class: What’s in a name?
June 8, 2011Defending the middle class has become a central theme in labor's fightback.
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Service employees join suit vs. Georgia’s anti-immigrant law
June 8, 2011Call Georgia's anti-immigrant law "racial profiling" that threatens to turn Georgia into "a police state."
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