GOP bashes labor board
Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.
Against the odds, CWA fights for “good jobs, strong communities”
The Communications Workers of America is stressing "movement building" as its convention opens in Las Vegas this week.
Obama defends collective bargaining on Twitter
Obama was using Twitter to go over the heads of the press corps, and to address people who don't read papers or watch TV but rely on social media.
Farm workers protest veto of Calif. card check bill
California's Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have allowed farm workers to use the card check method to unionize. Brown refused to meet with the farm workers and the 25 legislators that camped outside of his office.
National Writers Union fights for writers in Internet age
Whole industries have grown up which hire writers into "content farms," paying them pennies to create verbal statements on virtually every subject.
Largest education union endorses Obama
The 3.2-million-member National Education Association has endorsed President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
Uranium plant, run by scabs, fined for toxic leak
An accident at a uranium-processing plant in Metropolis, Ill, shows the danger of using scab labor in a plant that requires sophisticated and trained workers.
Judge backs labor board over Boeing
A federal judge threw out a motion by Boeing to dismiss an NLRB lawsuit that charged the company with illegally punishing union workers in Washington state by moving a new production line to South Carolina.
Probe shows union-busting Michelle Rhee wrote Michigan anti-teacher law
Anti-union consultant writes bill that attacks Michigan teachers.
IKEA stacks deck against union backers
IKEA agreed to a union election date, but only after adding "team captains" to the pool in a move the Machinists union says is aimed at influencing the vote.
