AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Despite the best efforts of corporate-backed anti-union groups , the Bush White House and anti-worker politicians demonizing unions on the campaign trail, most Americans continue to approve of unions, as they have for the past seven decades. The latest update from Gallup on union support shows 59 percent of those surveyed back unions, while 29 percent disapprove...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A delegation comprising members from Insurance Corporation Employees Union, Development Officers Union, General Insurance Employees Union and LIC Pensioners Association submitted a representation on the proposed insurance amendment bill to ...
New York News, Weather, and Sports (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leaders of the United Auto Workers union are close to signing off on changes to the 2007 labor contract with U.S. auto makers.
Driive (Free subscription) | yesterday
A United Auto Workers official said Wednesday the union has agreed to restart contract talks with the Detroit Three automakers and delay their payments into a union-run health care trust.
Business Daily Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.A.W. president said the union would also suspend its jobs bank and allow carmakers to delay health care payments. Source
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Government unions yesterday criticized a White House executive order that bars certain workers at five federal departments from joining a union because they are engaged in intelligence gathering, investigations and other national security work.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Americans remain broadly supportive of labor unions, as they have been over the past seven decades, including a 59% approval rating for unions in Gallup's most recent update from August. Organized labor unions played an important part in helping Democrat Barack Obama get elected president this year, by providing financial support and manpower for the campaign. Labor leaders now...
jeffreymark (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Ramirez illustrates why US automakers cannot compete against the likes of Toyota.
News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mr Lawrence Majali is the new secretary-general of the Kenya National Union of Teachers. He beat Mr William Ohonde
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Union County Sheriff's officer is fighting for his life in a Newark hospital today after a vehicle traveling at more than 100 miles per hour slammed into his squad car Tuesday night in Elizabeth, authorities said. Police had been...
Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Government unions are against the executive order that bars certain workers at five federal departments from joining a union because they are involved in national security work.
New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Union Township business owner Raul Rodriguez was one of 22 property owners who successfully fought the blight designation and the use of eminent domain in Union Township, New Jersey. This Friday, December 5, attorneys for Union Township will move before the Hon. Walter R. Barisonek for reconsideration of the court's rejection of the township's redevelopment plan. The township...
TwitPic public timeline (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
wombatsteve: Gone to the Union Chapel to see Josh Rouse. Its quite nice here!
BBC News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The United Auto Workers union pledges key concessions to help the Detroit Three carmakers secure government aid.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The failures of the "Big 3" had nothing to do with union workers, as the GOP has been saying. It had to do with the fact that these industries didn't adapt to the times
