Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — As the House of Representatives later this week decides whether to second-guess the expert National Mediation Board, lawmakers must ponder voting for a double standard. At issue is an N [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — Bipartisan legislation to improve motorcoach safety has been introduced in the House and Senate. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) jointly introduced S [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Say it ain’t so, governor. But it is. Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage has ordered removal from the Maine Department of Labor of a 36-foot, 11-panel mural depicting the state’s and nation’s p [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Pursuant to a March 4 ruling of a federal district court judge, an arbitrator has been named to determine whether the merger agreement between the UTU and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Why are many UTU members participating across America in rallies opposing attacks on collective-bargaining rights? Why have we created the Collective Bargaining Defense Fund to assist our union brothers a [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. It is said that “all politics is local,” and a hero co-pilot with U.S. Airways made a symbolic gesture in Madison, Wis., last week on behalf of the public employees whose collective bargaining [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Vic Baffoni Vice President, Bus Department These are troubling times for our nation, states and municipalities. Budget problems are forcing cutbacks in a wide variety of public services, and public t [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — Speaking to labor’s rank-and-file via an AFL-CIO electronic town hall meeting last week, Vice President Joe Biden warned of “barbarians at the gate” of working familie [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. MADISON, Wis. — It may be only a temporary restraining order, but the decision of a Wisconsin judge last week to block the state legislature from revoking the collective bargaining rights of public [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. LANSING, Mich. — In another blow to public employee collective-bargaining rights, the Michigan House and Senate have passed legislation allowing non-elected emergency financial managers in financial [...]
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