Texas
In Texas, $18 billion in hole, yet governor lives luxury life
June 14, 2010DALLAS -- While the Republicans hold their convention here, the Texas AFL-CIO held a press conference to highlight that these "fiscal conservatives" have dropped the state into an $18 billion deficit hole.
Read moreTexas nurses vote to join union
June 10, 2010More than 1,900 registered nurses at five Texas hospitals have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee-Texas (NNOC-Texas).
Read moreAs November nears, Texas GOP gets weirder
June 10, 2010The great State of Texas has always been an asylum for colorful characters, but something is burnishing those colors to high gloss of late.
Read moreTexas nurses go union
June 8, 2010HOUSTON -- More than 1,900 registered nurses at five Texas hospitals have voted to unionize by joining the National Nurses Organizing Committee.
Read moreTexas labor isn’t waiting
June 1, 2010A particular target for Texas trade unionists is anti-worker Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who continues to embarrass his state before the nation by defending BP.
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