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GOP forces anti-labor provisions into transport bills
February 2, 2012Unions are mobilizing this week to fight anti-labor provisions the Republicans have inserted into major transportation bills.
Read moreIndy Occupy movement joins with labor unions in protest at Super Bowl Village
January 30, 2012About 200 people including union members and the Occupy movement gathered on the south steps of the Indiana Statehouse recently to voice their outrage over the "right to work" bill.
Read moreIndiana House passes right to work for less bill
January 26, 2012In an assault on workers and their unions in the heart of the once heavily industrialized and unionized Midwest, Indiana's Republican-controlled House passed a right to work for less bill yesterday.
Read moreIn their war against workers, corporations increasingly choose lockouts
January 25, 2012Employers have been engaging in class warfare for quite some time now. Recently they have added lockouts to the long list of weapons they have used to wage that warfare.
Read moreAFL-CIO calls for urgent action to stop Indiana “right-to-work”
January 23, 2012The AFL-CIO has issued a national appeal for help to stop passage of a so-called "right-to-work" law in Indiana. "We are at war," the AFL-CIO appeal reads. "The assault on workers in Indiana continues."
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