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Big business drives Illinois anti-teacher bill

January 6, 2011 By Lance Cohn And John Bachtell

CHICAGO - Under the guise of "school reform," big corporate foundations, banking and speculative hedge fund investors are pulling out all stops to ram an anti-teacher measure through the Illinois state legislature.

Public workers in the bull’s-eye

January 5, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Taking advantage of the economic crisis, the Republicans and Wall Street have placed public workers in the bull's-eye of their attack.

Oregon workers petition for jobs, safety net

January 5, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

With the jobless rate in the Rose City at 10.6 percent or 38,402 workers unemployed, the labor movement and its allies are fed up and fighting back.

Texans face tough fights

January 4, 2011

With their two-thirds GOP majority in the Texas House, the right wing hopes to curtail the right of Texas workers to join unions.

2010: Labor wins some, loses some

January 4, 2011 By John Wojcik

Labor posted some wins — and losses — in 2010.