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Self-serving study falsely claims union members are exempted from laws governing certain types of criminal activities HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The corporate fueled right-wing attack on workers' rights opened a new front in their war against the middle class with the release of a self-serving U.S. Chamber of Commerce study alleging some Pennsylvania laws were written to exempt unions from criminal statutes. Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Richard...
MONTREAL, June 12, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - FTQ-Construction and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP-FTQ) are proposing a new Canada-wide entity to their members: the Canadian Construction Unions Council (CCUC). The new organization will allow recruitment of members across Canada in periods of labour shortages to promote mobility and subsequently increase job stability. The final proposal was approved today by leaders of both labour organizations. The...
Biomedical Services 'Bad Faith' Under Investigation LANSING, Mich., June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 580 American Red Cross workers in Lansing joined seven Red Cross unions across the country in a strike to protest unfair labor practices, including benefits changes and "bad faith" bargaining over new employment contracts. Workers in Lansing have been without a collective bargaining agreement for more than a year, despite union representatives meeting with Red Cross...
Support for the labor movement has fallen to 48 percent from 59 percent since 2008, the lowest support level in 70 years, a Gallup survey indicates. The dip comes despite labor having allies in the White House and Congress and the anti-corporate mood in the country, Forbes reported Monday. However, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka seems ready to concede that labor unions haven't persuaded Congress and the public on issues such as card-check legislation that would end secret ballots...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Change to Win executive director Chris Chafe regarding the Senate Republicans' obstruction of legislation to provide emergency financial support for the auto industry. "The ghost of Herbert Hoover must be whispering in the ears of the Republican minority. The Republican Senate Caucus in an ideological fit threatens our entire economy as well as the hopes of working families with demands to immediately reduce wages...
By John Sweeney Wall Street is going through a spectacular failure, and the rest of us are being asked to bail it out. Meanwhile, working people have been struggling for years, long before investment firms started going belly up. Yet, remarkably, the nation's economic meltdown is completely absent in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would restore working people's single best ticket to the middle class -- the freedom to form a union and bargain for a better life....
By Kyle Peterson CHICAGO (Reuters) - The historic fracture in the AFL-CIO this week may be bitter medicine for a U.S. labor movement that has seen membership sag as it struggles to maintain its relevance in a changing economic landscape. The split by the Teamsters union and the service workers union from the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. union coalition, on its 50th anniversary could re-energize organizing efforts directed at difficult industry targets, such as health care, discount retailers...
