Labor descends on Michigan capital to battle Republican budget
Michigan labor gathered here determined to stop the onslaught of anti-labor bills and budget cuts Republicans are pushing.
Right now: 1,000 workers sit in and block Indiana state Senate
A thousand union members and their allies are sitting in and blocking the entrances to the state Senate chamber in Indianapolis.
Occupation of Wisconsin Capitol continues for third day
50,000 people packed Capitol Square here on the third day of a virtual occupation of Wisconsin's seat of government.
Rite Aid Valentine protest: "Show love for worker's rights"
Cleveland staged a protest against Rite Aid's attempt to take away fully paid union health insurance from workers.
Big business floods Congress with demands to de-regulate
Corporations officially unveiled loads of pet projects, wish-lists, and regulations they want axed during a hearing held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The labor movement says it's corporate arm-twisting of lawmakers on the issue of regulations.
GOP attacks public workers collective bargaining rights
Republicans legislators and the Republican governor in Ohio are intensifying their campaign to turn public workers into scapegoats for the economic problems in their state.
Union happy with new Obama crackdown on mine owners
Mine workers welcome Obama's plan to make it easier in cracking down on coal companies that are constant safety violators. However specific rules need to be enforced in order to further erode the systemic problem, unions say.
Obama renominates his pick for labor board
Showing he won't take the Senate GOP "no's" for an answer, President Barack Obama on Jan. 26 renominated former top union attorney Craig Becker as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
Union elections ahead at United
The merger of Continental Airlines into Chicago-based United Airlines, creating the newest mega-carrier, will set off a round of union recognition elections among the combined carrier's 55,000 workers
OSHA backtracks on documenting ergonomic injuries
Responding to what it called complaints by "small business," the Occupational Safety and Health Administration retreated from even the mild ergonomics proposal it had planned for later this year.
