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UTU allocates funds to fight union busting
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UTU allocates funds to fight union busting The United Transportation Union Board of Directors Feb. 28 voted that funds from the UTU's Education Fund be made available to assist union brothers and sisters in various states whose collective-bargaining rights, right to strike, union membershi...
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Rallies in 50 states support Wisconsin protesters
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Rallies in 50 states support Wisconsin protesters (The following appeared on the CBS News website on February 26, 2011.) Protests kicked off around the country on February 26 as the group moveon.org organized noontime rallies in all 50 state capitals as a sign of solidarity for union workers in Wis...
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Wisconsin protesters defy police order to evacuate
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Wisconsin protesters defy police order to evacuate (The following appeared on the USA Today website on February 28, 2011.) MADISON, Wis. Protesters in Wisconsin, who have sparked a national debate about workers rights versus state budget needs, vowed to continue fighting Sunday even as police p...
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Teamsters by the thousands stand with Wisconsin
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Teamsters by the thousands stand with Wisconsin (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following on February 27, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Thousands of Teamsters across America showed their solidarity with workers in Wisconsin on Saturday after a long week of protests in the Mid...
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Visit IBT's 'Stop the War on Workers' website
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Visit IBT's 'Stop the War on Workers' website The International Brotherhood of Teamsters are doing an excellent job of gathering the latest news regarding the war on workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states. For the latest news, and an up to the minute list of rallies in your area, please visit:...
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United we bargain, divided we beg
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United we bargain, divided we beg The signs -- carried, pasted and nailed about the Wisconsin state capitol building this past weekend -- say it all: "United we bargain, divided we beg." For labor, this may be our finest hour, as working families have gathered peacefully, but strong, con...
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Union-busting brothers heading our way
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Posted on Mon, Feb. 28, 2011 Union-busting brothers heading our wayKochs a key factor in WisconsinBy WILL BUNCH Philadelphia Daily Newsbunchw@phillynews.com 215-854-2957 THIS IS no prank. The political movement spearheaded by the increasingly in-the-news billionaire Koch brothers - liber...
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Trenton Rally
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Thousands rally in Trenton in support of unions By Maya Rao and Matt KatzINQUIRER TRENTON BUREAU TRENTON - Thousands of people are rallying in the rain at the New Jersey Statehouse this afternoon in solidarity with public-union employees in Wisconsin and to protest against Gov. Christie's propos...
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Rise of the 4th reich
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Ohio’s attack on collective bargaining could jeopardize its federal transit money
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Ohios attack on collective bargaining could jeopardize its federal transit money (The following appeared on The Plain Dealer website on February 23, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Ohio could lose a significant portion of its $171 million in yearly federal transit money if state legislators adopt a pro...
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Jesse Jackson joins Ohio union workers in opposition to attack on collective bargaining
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Jesse Jackson joins Ohio union workers in opposition to attack on collective bargaining (The following appeared on the Plain Dealer website on February 23, 2011.) COLUMBUS, Ohio The Rev. Jesse Jackson revved up union workers at a downtown rally today to oppose Senate Bill 5, a Republican-backed p...
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Hoffa in Wisconsin, urges working families to stick together
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Hoffa in Wisconsin, urges working families to stick together (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following on February 23, 2011.) MADISON, Wisc. Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today addressed a crowd of thousands of working families in the Statehouse Rotunda, urgin...
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Top six revelations in the call between fake David Koch and Governor Scott Walker
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Top six revelations in the call between fake David Koch and Governor Scott Walker (The following appeared on the Huffington Post website on February 23, 2011.) The call made by a Buffalo blogger pretending to be billionaire right-wing activist David Koch to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is quic...
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Wisconsin governor exposed as corporate tool in prank call
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Wisconsin governor exposed as corporate tool in prank call (The following is from teamsternation.blogspot.com.) If you ever had any doubt that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is a toady for corporate welfare and queen union-busting billionaire David Koch, you have to listen to this. Right now. A j...
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Biden defends unions against conservative ‘social agenda’
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Biden defends unions against conservative social agenda (The following appeared on The Hill website on February 23, 2011.) Unions are not the cause of the country's economic woes, Vice President Biden said Wednesday. Public employees are not the problem. The problem is much deeper, Biden said du...
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Indiana official: "Use live ammunition" against Wisconsin protesters
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Indiana official: "Use live ammunition" against Wisconsin protesters (The following appeared on the Mother Jones website.) On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building somethi...
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Opinion leaders agree: It's union busting
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Opinion leaders agree: It's union busting Rallies in support of public-employee collective bargaining are being held in scores of cities across America to protest legislative efforts in Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin to revoke that right. A new attack on public-employee collective bargaining w...
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Hoffa: Wisconsin Governor has gone too far
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Hoffa: Wisconsin Governor has gone too far (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following on February 22, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has gone too far with his vindictive attack on working families. Hoffa wa...
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Teamsters march and sit on battlefields in MI, OH, IN, WI, VT, CO
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Teamsters march and sit on battlefields in MI, OH, IN, WI, VT, CO (The following appeared on the Teamster Nation website on February 22, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Teamsters fought to stop the war against workers alongside tens of thousands of people demonstrating in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Color...
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BLET members flood Hill to save Amtrak
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BLET members flood Hill to save Amtrak CLEVELAND, February 19 More than 20 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen inundated Capitol Hill on February 17, visiting nearly 100 offices to help save Amtraks funding and to lobby on behalf of the interests of their fellow BLET mem...
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BLET, MBCR reach tentative agreement
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BLET, MBCR reach tentative agreement CLEVELAND, February 23 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen has reached a tentative agreement with the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR) that would provide members with general wage increases worth 13.7 percent over the four-yea...
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Another organizing win for UTU
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Another organizing win for UTU Employees of Western Rail Road in Braunfels, Texas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cemex USA, have voted to be represented by the UTU. The railroad moves crushed rock, cement and other aggregates for interchange with Union Pacific at Dittlinger and Stonetown, Texas....
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Ohio labor rally Tuesday to draw thousands
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Ohio labor rally Tuesday to draw thousands COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As the legislative standoff continues in Wisconsin, Ohio takes center stage Tuesday, Feb. 22, in the battle to preserve collective-bargaining rights for state workers. The Columbus Dispatch newspaper reports that as many as 20,000 pr...
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Fighting for collective bargaining in 3 states
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Fighting for collective bargaining in 3 states A senior Ohio Democrat promises that if Republicans there are successful in passing legislation to revoke collective bargaining rights for public employees, a ballot initiative would be drafted to repeal the law in the next general election, repor...
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Thousands descend on Ohio Statehouse to protest collective bargaining attack
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Thousands descend on Ohio Statehouse to protest collective bargaining attack (The following appeared on the Cleveland Plain Dealer website on February 17, 2011.) COLUMBUS, Ohio As many as 3,800 boisterous public workers from across the state descended on the Ohio Statehouse on Thursday, rocki...
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