Unions Rally, Linking Their Cause to Dr. King New York Times ...Labor unions and civil rights groups held hundreds of rallies and teach-ins on Monday to defend collective bargaining...
Republicans to Unveil Budget Calling for Sweeping Changes in Tax, Spending Bloomberg ...Ryan’s proposal to end traditional Medicare calls for new beneficiaries, starting in 2022, to instead be provided subsidies to buy private health insurance...
Wisconsin recall drive already making history Washington Post ...the energy and staying power of what has been unleashed in Wisconsin continue to surprise...
Spending suggests tight Supreme Court race Wisconsin State Journal ...both sides consider the outcome a virtual toss-up...
Conservative group denies it masterminded drive to restrict public employee unions Cleveland Plain Dealer ...A nonprofit Washington-DC based association ... is being touted as the brains behind efforts ... to curb the collective bargaining powers of public employees...
Federal lawsuit seeks return of mural to Labor Department Portland Press Herald ...The complaint claims that the Republican governor... (has) violated the free-speech rights of all Mainers and failed in their fiduciary duties as government officials...
Rick Snyder recap: Latest developments on the pension tax, teacher-strike penalties and his support in the polls mlive.com ...Michigan Democrats trash Snyder and the GOP for raising taxes on the working poor and seniors, punishing the newly unemployed and cutting public education...
Standing by the union Concord Monitor ...The proposed budget cuts too deeply into health and human services and promised retirement benefits, and a provision that makes public workers at-will employees if a contract expires before a new one is written is immoral...
