A federal proposal to have information about joining unions added to the collection of posters in your company breakroom was rejected by a court on Tuesday. In short: The government can't threaten to punish a business for deciding to keep its mouth shut.
Insisting that raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour would cost jobs, House Speaker John Boehner has already rejected President Obama's State of the Union call to bring it up from $7.25. Here's research that says otherwise.
The New York Times took a victory lap of sorts, when it published the latest installment of its iEconomy series explaining how Foxconn changed after global outrage over working conditions.
When they complain that their days are too short, they really mean that the pay at the notorious Chinese electronics manufacturer is still too low.
As if the story of the deadly blaze that killed 112 people in a Bangladeshi garment factory couldn't get any worse, new details suggest that somebody locked the workers in the burning building.
Walmart employees were threatening to bring holiday shopping to its knees by striking on the busiest shopping day of the year to show their demand for a better working conditions. So, how did it go?
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
With the NHL's lockout dragging on for months and little movement from either side, fans are starting to lose it. Since the NHL knew they were losing the publicity battle, they got GOP strategist Frank Luntz to help win back fans and get leverage in the negotiations.
Walmart, America's favorite purveyor of affordable clothing and military-grade weaponry, is currently struggling with a couple of troubling labor disputes.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Want a quick way to ruin your Thursday? Have the number of hours you work and the number of vacation days handy.
New York Times employees are getting visibly restless as their CEO-less company struggles to chart its course through 2012, amid declining profits and rising costs.
There are two types of unpaid interns: The kind who have a fair shot at suing their employers for illegal abuse of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the kind who can’t do anything about it. The government employs the second kind.
A year ago, we probably would've been excited about new reports that the Foxconn is starting to manufacture the new teardrop-shaped iPhone for a midsummer launch, but now we just feel weird about the whole thing.
After conservatives criticized Herman Cain for his stumbling response to an answer about unions' collective bargaining power, his campaign sent out a press release that's a shorter version of the entire Cain campaign -- not-quite-factual statements, a refusal to offer details, and the hope that everyone will be distracted if he shouts "Ronald Reagan!" loud enough.
Ohioans will vote in two weeks whether to keep a law curbing union power on the books, and a lot of people wish the country were paying more attention to the election -- reporters, Tea Partiers, unions -- except for maybe Mitt Romney.
A pair of writers unions are abandoning their seven-month-long boycott against The Huffington Post protesting the website's use of unpaid bloggers citing an agreement, but the web news giant says it's not changing its rules for unpaid writers.
Funerals delayed as workers demand a big increase in pay
The most recent of political symbolism out of Wisconsin goes to Republicans
Democrats will gain control of the state senate if they take three seats from Republicans
The confusing tweets that ended the week
Healthcare is a sticking point in negotiations for second year in a row
Said GOP violated transparency law in passing bill; didn't rule on merits of the law itself
Some Treasury accounting tricks will buy Congress a few more months to negotiate
The nation faces a bevy of sizable problems, though the world's eyes are elsewhere
The Democratic House in Boston passed a bill to curb bargaining for health benefits
If employees are unhappy, that doesn't make it a "bad romance"
Incumbent nets 7,500 votes in wild Wisconsin state Supreme Court race
An election with 1.5 million votes is essentially tied, but the new victors are gleeful
JoAnne Kloppenburg is 204 votes ahead in perceived referendum on recent labor debate
The vote--called a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker--is still too close to call
The formerly reliable blue state will be a major battleground in 2012
On helping Libya, the dangers of polygamy, and writing for free
Carlos Lam is the second Hoosier official to lose his job over violent anti-union messages
Another reason Randy Hopper's wife will support his recall
Statehouse passes bill that allows emergency managers to break union contracts
Wisconsin labor activists knocked on Randy Hopper's and found his wife instead
There's no way to enforce drug testing and agent regulations during the contract standoff
Pundits, as ever, waste no time using the massive tragedy to score a few political points
The collective bargaining fight has been a boon for progressive fundraising
At UNICOR, prisoners build everything, for everyone, in every field
Governor Scott Walker can only afford to lose two and still pass the legislation
Ohio Senate gets closer to curbing collective bargaining for public employees, while Wisconsin and Illiinois stays stalemated
Many Democrats didn't get a chance to record their nays and chanted "Shame!" as Republicans left the building. The battle in the senate remains
The billionaire brothers have no particular love for labor
Facing budget crises, some state governors want to freeze public union pay--and weaken their political power in the long run
Continuing fallout from the Blanche Lincoln race
Blanche Lincoln's victory over union opposition throws light on a looming conflict
"I think as a Republican, I'm supposed to love Fox News and hate MSNBC"
After helping pass health care, he plans to pass the torch
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