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In contempt: Wisconsin judge blocks anti-union law … AGAIN … as Republicans...
A Wisconsin judge issues a new ruling on the GOP union-busting law, perhaps wondering whether anyone in Madison can read (and if not, why they’re trying to chase away all the teachers …) From...
View Article(Video) MLK’s speech to Memphis sanitation workers, April 3, 1968
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech to Memphis sanitation workers as they prepared to strike, the day before he was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine motel. Watch the speech here: Then...
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While Wisconsin gets the ink, Florida stripping union rights, too
While the national media — well, MSNBC — has been focused on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican legislature in that state’s brazen push to strip teachers and other public employees of...
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Trumka to blast those seeking ‘I got mine’ nation
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka plans to put Democrats, Republicans on notice Labor leader Richard Trumka, who heads the powerful AFL-CIO, will take a giant step away from the Democratic Party in a...
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FL Teachers union sues Rick Scott
Rick Scott fields another lawsuit. Rick Scott has already been sued by the ACLU over drug testing (he has since suspended that policy while the case goes forward) and by doctors over the gun-gag law he...
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NJ becomes latest state to pass anti-union law, plus, the latest state battles
Public sector unions are under attack in multiple states On Thursday, New Jersey became the latest state to pass a bill ending collective bargaining rights for public workers, handing a major victory...
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In Ohio, Kasich waves the white flag
Note to Ohio Gov. John Kasich: calling cops “idiots” in a speech is not a good idea, and neither is ramming through an anti-union bill aimed at cops, plus firefighters and teachers. And so… COLUMBUS –...
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Arizona strikes again
It's all over but the Pinkertons... It’s not enough that it’s the land of wildly anti-immigrant laws and sheriffs, and the crooked-fingered governor who feels “threatened” by … um… tall presidents....
View ArticleAFSCME’s genius Romney ad: ‘I love lamp’
Mashed up with a scene from “Anchorman.” TRR offers a suggestion for the next Romney ad, after the jump…
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This week’s Herald column: the politics of work
Playing a bit of posting catch-up: here’s my column from Thursday on the GOP’s war on unions. A clip: American society fundamentally changed in the early 20th century, when unions made it possible for...
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