worker rights – Page 234

Wisconsin recall drive is ahead of schedule

March 16, 2011 By John Wojcik

Less than two weeks after recall campaigns against eight Wisconsin GOP state senators got under way, union members and their allies have already collected half the signatures they need.

Attacks on public workers put women in bulls’-eye

March 16, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Women are calling Republican budget cuts and attacks on public employees a double-barreled "war on women."

Ohio workers shake Capitol in giant SB 5 protest

March 14, 2011 By Bruce Bostick

The walls of the Statehouse literally shook, as thousands of workers, in hard hats and gear, marched to the Capitol grounds behind a delegation of bagpipes and drums.

Video: Union power erupts in Indiana

March 12, 2011 By Scott Marshall

INDIANAPOLIS - Tens of thousands of union members and their supporters flooded into this city, Indiana's state capital, on Thursday in defense of union rights.

Your mailman talks about St. Patrick’s Day and workers who vote Republican

March 11, 2011 By John Dick

St. Patrick's Day marks the 41st anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The key to our dismal conditions then was this: we had no collective bargaining rights.