unions
Relocating production line to avoid union breaks labor law
April 25, 2011The NLRB says Boeing's decision to locate its second assembly line for its new model "Dreamliner" super-jumbo passenger plane in non-union South Carolina, and not in its unionized plants in the Pacific Northwest, breaks labor law.
Read moreMay Day in Chicago: Labor to commemorate Haymarket martyrs
April 22, 2011It's just one word in labor history with a lot of associations: Haymarket.
Read moreWe Are One on May Day
April 22, 2011International Worker's Day has come home. Out of the depths of the raging class war against public workers, their unions and all working people, has arisen a call by the labor movement from Wisconsin to Connecticut...
Read moreRecall fight makes history in Wisconsin
April 19, 2011Supporters of public-sector unions in Wisconsin filed enough petition signatures to force two Republican senators into recall elections, only four of which have ever been carried out in the state's history.
Read moreLaHood “had no idea” air traffic controllers were tired
April 19, 2011The problem started 30 years ago when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers who were protesting the very conditions that led to this debacle.
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