Labor & Employment Law

New T-Shirt: Stand with Wisconsin!

Posted on March 07, 2011
  Show your solidarity with Wisconsin workers with this great new “Stand with Wisconsin” T-shirt. Public employees and the entire community are entering their fourth week of protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to take away the right of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs...

Which President Jumped Out a Window to Prevent a Vote?

Posted on March 07, 2011
Here?s a history quiz. What state legislator tried to prevent a crucial vote by hopping out of a window in hopes of depriving the other party of a quorum? Hint: He?s the same one who said, ?Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed...

Wisconsin Sheriff Stands Up for Democracy

Posted on March 06, 2011
Sheriff David Mahoney   Dane County (Wis.) Sheriff Scott Mahoney is a man who respects the Constitution and the right of people to protest. Mahoney pulled his deputies from the guarding the Wisconsin Capitol building entrances this week after Gov...

Michael Moore to Wisconsin Workers: All America Thanks You

Posted on March 05, 2011
For the third straight weekend and 20th straight day, tens of thousands of workers are rallying at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., for the right of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs. Filmmaker Michael Moore joined the crowd and is on stage now, saying: All America thanks you...

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Michael Moore Headed to Madison, Watch Today?s Rally Online

Posted on March 05, 2011
Just announced: Filmmaker Michael Moore is headed to Madison, Wis., to join citizens for another massive rally as Day 20 of protest gets underway. With the right of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs on the line, residents from across the state have remained energized in their struggle against Gov...

Whose House? Our House!

Posted on March 04, 2011
This is a crosspost from the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. This evening the court of law ruled that the Wisconsin State Capitol MUST remain open to its people. The Capitol is going to resume business hours and protesters will be asked to leave every night...

U.S. Jobs Rise by 192,000 in February, 13.7 Million Still Unemployed

Posted on March 04, 2011
The number of U.S. jobs increased by 192, 000 in February, with the unemployment rate declining to 8.9 percent from 9 percent in February, according to new Bureau of Labor Statistics data out this morning. Job gains occurred in manufacturing (33,000), construction (33,000), and several service-providing industries...

NFL Exec: We Are Committed to Collective Bargaining

Posted on March 04, 2011
This afternoon, the National Football League Players Association and managers extended the contract deadline for another seven days while negotiations continue.  After the extension was announced, Jeff Pash, executive vice president of labor for the National Football League, said he backed the collective bargaining process...

Wisconsin Republicans Getting Nervous About Losing Senate Votes

Posted on March 04, 2011
   Opponents of the right of public employees to bargain for middle-class jobs in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may switch their votes and support public employees. Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal that with a 19-14 majority in the state Senate, Republicans cannot lose more than two votes if they want to ram through Gov...

Ohio Senator Yanked Before Vote on Bargaining Rights Speaks Out

Posted on March 04, 2011
Half an hour before an Ohio state Senate committee voted on SB 5, the bill that would eliminate public employees? right to bargain, the Senate Republican leader replaced a fellow Republican senator who opposed the bill with someone who supported it to guarantee the measure passed...

Washington Hospital Center Nurses Strike, Rally for Better Patient Care

Posted on March 04, 2011
    Nurses at Washington Hospital Center walked out this morning on a one-day strike.          Nurses at Washington Hospital Center walked out this morning for a one-day strike to protest management?s refusal to address their concerns about safe patient care, management?s attempt to erode nursing standards, and management?s unfair labor practices...

Solis Stands With Public Workers in Struggle for Rights

Posted on March 04, 2011
With 10,000 members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on the line, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis earlier this week pledged her support for public employees struggling to save their right to bargain for good middle class jobs. In a phone call to CWA members this week, Solis, who comes from a union family, said she is inspired and proud of the hundreds of thousands of union and non-union workers nationwide who are taking on the states’ aggressive anti-worker agendas...

Ohio Anti-Worker Agenda ?Disrespectful, Unfair?

Posted on March 04, 2011
  The effort to take away the right of public employees in Ohio is ?disrespectful and unfair? to America?s workers. Speaking on the floor of the House yesterday, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said it is ?ridiculous? to blame public employees for the ?financial meltdown caused by Wall Street?s recklessness...

Supporting Public Workers is Common Sense

Posted on March 04, 2011
Workers protesting at the Wisconsin state Capitol. John August, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and a native Wisconsinite, sends us this on events there. The coalition is an alliance of 29 local unions representing 90,000 health care workers...

Breaking: Walker Says He May Negotiate Some Issues, But Not Right To Bargain

Posted on March 03, 2011
This just in: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he won’t concede on the issue of taking away public employees? collective bargaining rights, but he may on others. In an interview with the Associated Press, Walker also threatened to start issuing layoff notices to state workers as soon as tomorrow if his bill calling for them to pay more for their benefits and taking away collective bargaining rights isn’t passed by then...

UAW: Michigan Governor?s Priorities Out of Whack With Citizens

Posted on March 03, 2011
UAW  leaders condemned Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder?s decision yesterday to eliminate collective bargaining rights for home-based child care providers. During a press conference this afternoon in Detroit, UAW President Bob King said Snyder?s decision, coupled with his disastrous proposed state budget, are part of the escalating national Republican war being waged against working people...

Wis. Police Assoc. Slams Republicans for Ordering Democrats Detained ?With or Without Force?

Posted on March 03, 2011
Wow. Let’s hear it for the Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA). Today the organization slammed Senate Republicans after they ordered the detention of 14 Democratic senators staying in Illinois ?with or without force.? Here’s the statement by these defenders of civil liberties and democracy: ?Politics aside, encouraging the forcible detention of duly elected lawmakers because they won?t allow you to dictate with a free hand is an unreasonable abuse of police power,? said WPPA Executive Director Jim Palmer...

Wisconsin Voters Back Public Employee Rights

Posted on March 03, 2011
Most Wisconsin voters oppose Gov. Scott Walker?s efforts to eliminate the rights of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Wisconsin voters released today shows that 52 percent oppose weakening collective bargaining rights and just 39 percent are in favor...

Public Says: Give Public Employees Their Rights, Tax the Rich

Posted on March 03, 2011
More info out now on the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll we reported on yesterday that shows 62 percent of the public believes it?s unacceptable to eliminate state employees? collective bargaining rights. That’s nearly double the 33 percent who thinks it?s acceptable...

Missouri Public Employees: Paid Less, Better Educated

Posted on March 03, 2011
One more study is out now that explodes the myth that public employees make more than their counterparts in the private sector. A new Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study released this week finds that full-time state and local government employees in Missouri are undercompensated by 15...

Wis. Workers Blast Gov. Walker?s Budget

Posted on March 03, 2011
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO field communications coordinator Karen Hickey sends us this report. The extreme cuts to essential services proposed by Gov. Scott Walker will damage Wisconsin residents and communities for generations to come. Not only are his massive cuts to education and vital services harmful to the state?s future, they place an unfair burden on Wisconsin?s nurses, teachers, first responders and other public service providers...

Indiana Working Families ?Standing Up for Hooisers?

Posted on March 03, 2011
       For the 11th straight day, working families will converge at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis to protest the General Assembly’s anti-worker agenda. Tonight?s “Stand Up for Hoosiers” rally will focus on working families and will feature various local entertainers, faith leaders, workers sharing their stories and a candlelight vigil...

Solidarity in Action: Check Out This New Video

Posted on March 03, 2011
  Check out this great video from our team here that pulls together some of the many moments of people power in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states where governors and state legislatures are trying to take away the right of public employees to bargain for good middle-class jobs...

?Sad Day for Ohio? as Anti-Worker Bill Passes 17-16

Posted on March 02, 2011
“Today is a sad day for Ohio?s middle class”, said Ohio AFL-CIO  President Tim Burga, after the state Senate passed by a 17-C16 margin Senate Bill 5, which would remove the freedom of public employees to bargain for a better life. The bill now goes to the state House...

ABC Series ?Made In America? Features U.S. Products

Posted on March 02, 2011
       Check this out. ABC World News this week is spotlighting products that are  “Made in America.”  Recognizing the connection between a strong industrial base and a vibrant economy, the feature on American-made products asks, “how we can bring jobs back to the U...

Ohio Working People Holding Vigil as Vote Nears on S.B. 5

Posted on March 02, 2011
Ohio?s working people will return to the Statehouse again tonight for a vigil to oppose Senate Bill 5 (S.B. 5) and Gov. John Kasich?s attacks on the middle class. The vigil, which began at 4 p.m. ET, comes on the heels of the passage of S.B. 5 in the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee this morning...

Wis. Voters File Recall Petitions Against Anti-Worker Senators

Posted on March 02, 2011
       This morning, voters from around Wisconsin took the first steps toward taking their state back by filing recall papers against eight Republican senators who have backed Gov. Scott Walker and pushed his partisan attempt to take away collective bargaining rights for thousands of  teachers, nurses, librarians and other workers...

NAACP Image Awards to Showcase Support for Workers Under Attack

Posted on March 02, 2011
    Halle Berry will be one of the stars participating in the NAACP Image Awards.          Attendees and participants at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards this weekend will showcase their support of American workers and families. NAACP officials will wear red, white and blue ribbons to show that they stand in solidarity with workers struggling to maintain collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and dozens of other states...

Watch Live Video of Ohio S.B. 5 Hearing NOW

Posted on March 02, 2011
The Ohio Senate is debating Gov. John Kasich’s anti-worker bill, Senate Bill 5. Watch the full state Senate vote on #SB5 here: http://bit.ly/h2VVyO #StateSOS #StandUpOH.

Another Poll Shows Americans Support Public Employees? Rights

Posted on March 02, 2011
Another bad poll for Scott Walker, John Kasich and all those who would eliminate bargaining rights for public employees. This just in from mmurraypolitics: Tease from new NBC/WSJ (Wall Street Journal) poll: 33 percent say it’s acceptable and 62 percent say unacceptable to eliminate state employees’ collective-bargaining rights...

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