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The new NLRB election rules shorten the timeframe employers may educate employees about their right not to join a union and delay the determination of who is or is not a supervisor until after the union election is held, causing chaos for employers.

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Rebekah Friend, Martin Murphy, and James McLaughlin to head Arizona AFL-CIO

PHOENIX, AZ - U.S District Court Judge G. Murray Snow issued a temporary injunction late Friday that blocks implementation of SB 1365, a discriminatory law which attacks the first amendment rights of union members in Arizona.

Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 132 and Local 563 have signed an unprecedented Memorandum of Commitment with MUL to provide training for African Americans seeking to become apprentices in highway construction.

If Dr. King were alive today I can assure you he would have marched in Wisconsin, rallied in Michigan and sent warnings to Indiana. If Dr. King were here today he would remind us of the importance of peaceful protest and our rights to assemble.

Operate your business successfully. An educational Labor & Employment event series.

A new, free, multimedia walking tour shares on-site histories from the Triangle Factory Fire. This tragedy, which was Manhattan’s most fatal until 9/11/2001, occurred one century ago on March 25th, 1911.

Labor Law: A Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act deals with private sector labor law arising under the National Labor Relations Act.

With the passage of Senate Bill 5 in the Ohio Senate, Ohio is now one step closer to ridding the public sector of collective bargaining.

In Boston, they call it “the Grand Bargain.”

Steven Greenhut joins Jason Hartman on the ‘Holistic Survival Show’ during episode 27 for a topic on unions, government and public debt levels.

20 percent of BEIJING's DEALERSHIPS will close after city limits CAR SALES.

November 18, 2010 -- The Pro Express gets the A-B-C’s of the American federal minimum wage from world-famous economist, L. Wayne Gertmenian, Ph.D.

Bob King understands that they need to grow and under his leadership the UAW has proclaimed that 2011 will be their year to do just that and they will be targeting a segment of the country that is as un-Union friendly as Wal-Mart – the South.

Joe Hill Celebration
: Local progressives will commemorate the day when Joe Hill, labor activist, songwriter, and IWW member (Industrial Workers of the World) was executed on a bogus murder charge by the state of Utah in 1915. Good music & people!

Nearly 100 NLRB decisions impacting unfair labor practice claims and union representation elections will be revisited after a recent Supreme Court ruling held cases decided by a two-member board were invalid.

Kevin Carson explains that the state’s labor regulations, far from promoting workers’ bargaining rights, have hindered them. Carson then points the way toward a future of labor radicalism aligned with free market anarchism.

Live web cam feed in the centre of Madrid as workers take to the streets for a protest rally and march, protesting against Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s measures cutting spending and changing labour laws.

The PA UC Board recently determined that the 28-day strike at Temple University Hospital was in fact a lockout by the employer. As a result, the 1500 nurses and professionals represented by PASNAP are eligible for unemployment compensation.

The importance and influence of unions has declined dramatically over the last thirty years. Is there a way that unions, can increase their membership, align themselves with the knowledge economy, and help the U.S. become more competitive?

Unionization is on the rise in healthcare facilities, especially among nurses.

90 million credit union members receive preferred pricing from new “Invest in America” deals.

Complete Freedom of Choice – The Self-Made-Man Generation is a mixture of self-help book, social study and a hymn to freedom. It speaks of Complete Freedom of Choice and how we can achieve ourselves.

Union Ergonomics Sponsoring Art in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Majestic Star Casinos LLC announced today that the dealers at its Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel property rejected a bid to be represented by the United Auto Workers. The vote of 150 dealers at the Tunica property was held Saturday, Sept. 12.

The Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate on March 10, 2009. President Barack Obama has pledged that he will sign EFCA if it comes across his desk.

Jimmy Gomez, previously with AFSCME in Washington D.C., will start at UNAC/UHCP March 2 to represent the voice of nurses in politics

Aging with Grace, a national eldercare resource company, headquartered in Montgomery Co., PA. has been selected as the preferred provider for the Eldercare Services Program for the Association of Federal State County and Municipal Employees.

On average, Americans work two weeks more per year than any other country. Among industrialized nations, we work the most, with the longest hours. With technological advances we should be trimming our workweek but we are, in fact, increasing it.

North Carolinas largest employers’ association will hold open discussion

Philip Dine, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated labor reporter offers insight to what happened to organized labor in America and what can be done to restore it to its role as the defender of middle-class values and economic wellbeing.