Some State governors and members of Congress like to hold up public sector unions — with their higher-than-average wages and generous union benefits — as a prime example of "big government" and "out of control" government spending and budget-busting pensions, because these union workers tend to have better wages and benefits than those who work in the private sector in non-union houses.

March 10, 2015

GOP-controlled Senate votes to kill labor board rule backed by unions; Obama veto threatened

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The Republican-controlled Senate Wednesday voted to kill a National Labor Relations Board rule reducing the time between a union's request for representation and a vote by workers on it.

February 24, 2015

Unions making comeback poised for confrontation

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The U.S. labor movement reasserts itself and demands payback for sacrifices workers made when the economy was down.

February 19, 2015

Labor unions commit to round-clock work on St. Louis stadium

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Labor unions have agreed to work around the clock five days a week without overtime if needed to build an NFL stadium on St. Louis' blighted north riverfront. Officials said the effort could save $45 million on a project that carries a price tag of as much as $985 million.

February 3, 2015

The Definitive Union Beer Collection 2015

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From crisp, golden ales to dark, frothy stouts the Labor 411 beer list has grown into a selection worthy of any connoisseur. - See more at: http://labor411.org/product-spotlight/24-the-definitive-union-beer-list#sthash.rRlv33c5.dpuf

January 13, 2015

Clarke: 12 plows sat during snow without firefighter help

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Davenport Public Works Director Mike Clarke, who told aldermen Saturday that he doesn't have enough drivers in his own department to plow during heavy snow, also said he can't seem to get firefighters to help him out like they used to.

December 23, 2014

Warren County passes local right-to-work law

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"This local ordinance is a slap in the face to the men and the women who work to earn a decent living in union organized jobs," said Eldon Remaud, president of UAW Local 2164, which represents Bowling Green's Corvette plant.

December 10, 2014

Deal reached to allow pension plans to cut benefits

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A bipartisan group of congressional leaders reached a deal Tuesday evening that would for the first time allow the benefits of current retirees to be severely cut, part of an effort to save some of the nation’s most distressed pension plans.

December 9, 2014

Labor Unions Accuse Congress of Sneak Attack on Pensions in Lame Duck →

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As lawmakers pressed Monday to finalize the legislative language of a must-pass omnibus spending bill, labor unions and retiree groups were mobilizing to defeat what they are characterizing as a lame-duck sneak attack on the pensions of some already-retired workers.

December 9, 2014

We should all be thankful for labor unions’ successes

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Now more than ever, we should be thankful to labor unions and their members for standing up for the middle class.

December 9, 2014

A Textbook Example of a Employer's Campaign to Destroy a Union

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If you’d like a sense of what a boss’s campaign to try to destroy a union looks like in the 21st century, take a look at a recent NLRB decision against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

December 4, 2014

US adds to list of items from child, forced labor

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The new report follows one by the Labor Department in October estimating that there may be as many as 168 million child laborers aged 5 to 17 worldwide, 85 million of them working "in hazardous conditions."