AFL-CIO leader: Wisconsin fight energizing unions Associated Press ... In trying to take away nearly all collective bargaining rights from state workers, Wisconsin's governor may have unintentionally given the American labor movement the lift it needed ...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker threatens lay offs if Democrats don't vote on state budget Daily News ...Wisconsin's union-busting Republican governor threatened Tuesday to lay off hundreds of public sector workers if the Democratic lawmakers who split the state don't return and vote on his proposed budget...
More Than 20,000 Rally in Ohio for Public Employees aflcionowblog ... as the state legislature began hearings on Gov. John Kasich’s onerous anti-worker bill known as Senate Bill 5 or S.B. 5...
Correctional officer stabbed at State Penitentiary (Local 117) ...an officer was found laying against the wall and bleeding profusely. He had been stabbed in the face with a ball point pen...
Rick Scott sued by Senators Joyner, Altman in Florida Supreme Court Miami Herald ...The lawsuit would force Scott to accept about $2.4 billion in federal transit money for the high-speed rail plan...
Unintended, but Sound Advice (opinion) New York Times ... all workers should be organized, whether they were actually in a union or not...
In Labor Clash, N.F.L.’s Union Calls Old Play New York Times ...the union is planning to effectively dissolve itself...
REPORT: How Koch Industries Makes Billions By Demanding Bailouts And Taxpayer Subsidies (Part 1) ThinkProgress ... Koch’s Tea Party libertarianism is actually a thin veneer for the company’s long running history of winning special deals from the government and manipulating the market to pad Koch profits...
