Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment Economic Populist ...Leading into the recession, the US had the weakest worker protections against individual and collective dismissals in the world...
Protests unite public, private union workers Los Angeles Times ...Legislation in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere has ignited a sense of solidarity within organized labor...
NBAPA Exec. Director Billy Hunter & Milwaukee Buck Keyon Dooling Stand w/Wisconsin Workers The Nation ...Unions across the country are standing with the workers of Wisconsin ... Count the National Basketball Association's Player's Association among their ranks...
Rick Perry takes the fifth on Scott Walker's union-busting plan DailyKos ...When you've got guys like (Texas Gov.) Rick Perry refusing to defend Walker's plan, you don't need a poll to know how the politics on this one are playing out. Things are bad: for Scott Walker...
Democratic governors criticize Wisconsin's Walker Washington Post ...Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, said Walker's approach represents a recipe for failure and ill will...
Union Busting: The Real Call from the Koch Brothers Huffington Post ...
This week, Americans for Prosperity -- a right-wing political powerhouse funded by the billionaire Koch brothers -- started running anti-union TV ads in Wisconsin...
Lawmaker, Citizens File Suit to Avoid Statehouse Lock Out ProgressOhio ...State Rep. Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo), two Ohio citizens who were not let in to the Ohio Statehouse earlier this week, and Brian Rothenberg from ProgressOhio announced today that they are filing a suit to avoid being shut out of the statehouse in the future...
Wisconsin Capitol To Close Sunday Afternoon After Non-Stop Protests Talking Points Memo ...Capitol Police is anticipating that a thorough cleaning can begin at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday...
Another Day, Another Conservative Poll With Bad News For Scott Walker Talking Points Memo ...Fifty-four percent of the respondents to Morris' poll said they were opposed to eliminating collective bargaining...
WI State Senate Makes Budget Repair Bill Unamendable firedoglake ... the bill, which came from the Assembly, can no longer be amended...
