Public Workers
Calif. ballot measure would fund public education
October 19, 2012In a scenario possible only under California's bizarre budgeting process, the state's general services budget is now in the hands of a ballot measure to temporarily tax high personal incomes to fund education.
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What’s the matter with white people?
October 12, 2012Building on its stereotype of African-Americans from 30 years ago, the Republican Party has made "cops, firefighters, nurses and teachers into its new 'welfare queens.'"
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Going behind the rhetoric on public employee pensions
October 11, 2012Wow. Last week there was yet another out-of-state special interest group trying to tell New Hampshire how to run OUR government.
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Today in Labor History: H.R. 15316 signed into law on September 7, 1916
September 7, 2012Federal employees won the right to receive Workers' Compensation insurance coverage in1916.
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Reader voices: City workers have HOPE on their side
September 5, 2012HOPE met to discuss the coming class battle over pension funds. This is the same struggle seen in Wisconsin and all over the country.
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