February 22, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the Indianapolis Star website on February 21, 2011.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Over the protests of thousands of labor union members who filled the Statehouse, a House committee voted on party lines today to send a bill that would bar unions and...
February 18, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(Reuters circulated the following on February 17, 2011.) MADISON, Wisc. — Wisconsin state Senate Democrats boycotting a vote on a plan to curb the union rights of public employees left the state on Thursday in an attempt to force majority Republicans to negotiate a...
February 18, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the Cleveland Plain Dealer website on February 17, 2011.) COLUMBUS, Ohio — As many as 3,800 boisterous public workers from across the state descended on the Ohio Statehouse on Thursday, rocking the normally sleepy Capitol to protest a...
February 17, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 17, 2011.) MADISON, Wis. — A bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights from nearly all Wisconsin public employees passed the Legislature’s budget-writing committee late Wednesday night despite...
February 16, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the Evansville Courier & Press website on February 16, 2011.) INDIANAPOLIS — Union members from Southwestern Indiana condemned what they said are GOP-backed efforts to chip away at the power of organized labor during a Statehouse rally...
February 16, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on February 16, 2011.) MADISON, Wis. — Union leaders say overhauls of rules for public- and private-sector unions being considered in Wisconsin, Ohio and about a dozen other states threaten to accelerate the...
February 14, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the New York Times website February 12, 2011.) SPOONS and forks, the metal flatware that everyone uses, are no longer made in the United States. The last factory in an industry stretching back to colonial times closed eight months ago in...
February 14, 2011 | Headlines, Teamsters, Unions
(The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following on February 11, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said concerted and coordinated attacks on government workers will kill jobs in the states where the attacks are launched....
February 11, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
(The Cleveland Plain Dealer published the following on February 10, 2011.) COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fight over changes to Ohio’s collective bargaining law escalated Wednesday with the introduction of a Republican proposal that labor groups say is a direct attack on...
February 8, 2011 | Headlines, Unions
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis on Monday commended a local branch of the Laborers’ International Union of North America here for training workers to get green jobs, part of an Obama administration effort to increase infrastructure spending. LIUNA Local 1191...
