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Push for 1 million Ohioans against SB 5

June 21, 2011 By Bruce Bostick

We Are Ohio announced Friday that 714,000 signatures had already been collected, more than triple the required amount, in the drive to repeal the anti-worker law.

Unions hit GOP “verification” scheme

June 20, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO President Trumka and Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Medina are blasting the GOP's latest anti-worker gambit: Forcing firms to use a faulty employee verification scheme, called "E-verify."

Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally

June 16, 2011 By John Wojcik

Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.

Unions take fight vs. Walker bill to federal court

June 16, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

Wisconsin AFL-CIO head Phil Neuenfeldt assailed the state Supreme Court for reinstating the union-busting law, called the ruling "an affront to our democracy."

Attacks on NLRB are attacks on working families

June 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

Why have Republicans and tea partiers gotten so riled up about the NLRB? Answer: Because it's doing its job.