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Progressive think tank backs Obama crackdown on federal contractors

March 10, 2015 By PAI

Facing hostility of big business and the GOP, a progressive think-tank went to bat to defend President Obama's cracking down on federal contractors who break labor laws.

Senate GOP votes to kill NLRB union elections rule, Obama promises veto

March 6, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 53-46 party-line vote, the GOP-run Senate voted to kill the NLRB's planned union elections rule update.

Wisconsin GOP continues its “right-to-work” steamroller

March 6, 2015 By Dominique Paul Noth

Republicans aren't slowing down their steamroller despite widespread opposition that continued this week from all quarters in Wisconsin.

Organizers say it’s possible to grow unions in the South

March 5, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

People remember Norma Rae, whose iconic struggle to organize a union at J.P. Stevens in the 1970's in Roanoke, N.C. was the stuff of a major Hollywood movie.

Oakland workers celebrate new minimum wage

March 2, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

On Mar. 2, tens of thousands of Oakland workers will get a pay raise, and thousands more will have paid sick days for the first time.