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 [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By International President Mike Futhey In state after state, anti-union right-wing extremists are targeting labor unions for destruction. It started with public-employee unions, but that’s not the e [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. If you wish to attend a rally in support of public-employee collective bargaining rights and workplace democracy, contact your state legislative director. The UTU National Legislative Office, in conjuncti [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Assistant President Arty Martin The attack on public-employee collective bargaining rights by right-wing extremists is intended to destroy labor unions. Union busting is something expected in the priva [...]
As expected, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin House of Representatives March 10 approved state senate passed legislation revoking collective bargaining rights for public employees. The bill now goes to Republican Gov. Scott Walker who promises to sign it into law. Noting t [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Republican controlled Wisconsin state senate, with all Democrats still absent, passed a bill late Wednesday, March 9, stripping from public employees almost all collective bargaining rights. The vote [...]
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