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GOP uses “budget cutting” to attack unions

February 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

An influential right-wing group among the House's new GOP majority, the 170-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), is using "budget cutting" as an excuse to attack federal worker union reps.

Egyptian workers form independent union coalition

February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Egyptian workers, suppressed by a government-sponsored and government-run labor federation, have broken away to form their own independent unions and federation and join the popular protests against President Hosni Mubarak's dictatorial rule.

Court green lights union pension lawsuit vs. financier

February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

BOSTON (PAI) - In one of the first cases affecting unions and their members to emerge from Wall Street's financial finagling, a federal appeals court in Boston gave the go-ahead to a class action suit by...

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.

In Iran, grand economic surgery and terror combine

February 1, 2011 By Jane Green

As winds of change blow across the Middle East from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen it will be interesting to see if the flame of resistance is reignited on the streets of Iran.