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By DAVE LEVINTHAL, The Center For Public Integrity— Pro-business powerhouse Americans for Job Security cannot, by federal law, make politics its primary purpose. But as contentious federal elections and state-level ballot initiatives raged during 2012, the nonprofit organizationʼs income spiked at least tenfold compared to 2011, a non-election year, records show. The cash windfall fueled tens […]
Continue reading …New York’s school bus strike can keep rolling. A strike by New York City bus drivers is legal and may continue, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled. The NLRB has found that a strike by union bus operators against a group of New York school bus companies does not violate the National Labor Relations […]
Continue reading …Opponents of labor union membership in the United States had a very successful couple of years during 2011 and 2012. Union membership nationwide reached a 76-year record low, during 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Jan. 23, 2013. In 2012, the union membership rate — the percentage of wage and salary workers who […]
Continue reading …By JIM MORRIS, Center for Public Integrity—A federal judge ruled Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, that Walmart can be added to a lawsuit alleging widespread wage theft at a Southern California warehouse. Lawyers for contract workers at the Schneider Logistics warehouse in Mira Loma, Calif. – whose sole customer is Walmart – had moved to add the retailer to […]
Continue reading …By PAUL ABOWD, Center for Public Integrity—Amid protests by labor unions, and objections from the stateʼs congressional delegation and even the president, Michiganʼs Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a “right-to-work” bill into law in December 11, 2012, drawn word-for-word from a 32-year-old “model bill” pushed by a corporate-funded, conservative think tank. The legislation deals a […]
Continue reading …By ROBERT THOMAS— The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) wants to make sure they aren’t left out of the cold at the Port of Portland Oregon. The union has been filing lawsuits and grievances against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in a dispute about who has the legal contract to plug in, […]
Continue reading …After a nationwide strike shut down many industries, workers in Indonesia have won a major victory, forcing the government to enact new rules clamping down on outsourcing. The Indonesian government is imposing tighter restrictions on the employment of workers through outsourcing following the 3 October 2012 nationwide labor protests. New regulations will ban outsourcing companies from […]
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