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February 18, 2011 – The Republican leadership of the Indiana House of Representatives has just announced that the House’s Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee will hear House Bill 1468, which contains so-called “right to work” language on Monday, February 21at 9:00 a.m. at the Indiana Statehouse. This last minute addition to the schedule is designed
Read moreThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved legislation that would repeal a recently updated National Mediation Board (NMB) voting rule for air and rail workers. The language included in the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 would restore the unfair advantage carriers have enjoyed in union representation elections for more than 75 years. In
Read moreNot content with torpedoing thousands of jobs and $1.2 billion for a state high-speed rail project, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker has introduced a bill that would strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights. Thousands of people have descended on the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison to protest the bill. Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature is
Read moreThe IAM has broken new ground in its latest collective agreement with Moduline Industries Canada Limited in Penticton, British Columbia. “For the first time, our workers over the age of 55 or with 30 years seniority can volunteer for a reduced work week schedule,” said IAM District Lodge 250 Directing Business Representative Stan Pickthall. The
Read moreIn an op-ed published on The Huffington Post, Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, addresses what he calls the “myth of offshoring.” “For fully two decades, the American people have been fed the canard that the offshoring of literally millions of American manufacturing jobs is an acceptable price
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