Old Labor Tactics Resurface in New Union
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Labor experts say Unite Here, the newly merged union that is representing the DC hotel workers in their current contract dispute, is one of the most outspoken and toughest unions under the AFL-CIO umbrella.
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Weâre not just talking about the ballplayers anymore, welcome as the news was Tuesday that the executive board of their union instructed its leaders to reopen the collective bargaining agreement and negotiate a tougher drug-testing policy.
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Emboldened by Toyotaâs plans to cut labor costs, the United Auto Workers is making its most concerted push yet to organize at the Japanese automakerâs largest American plant.
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Changes in the organization of the taxicab industry are behind some of the dissatisfaction voiced by drivers threatening to strike this week.
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A decades-old system for paying residuals ignites a new fight.
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Politically charged phrase disappearing as firms cook up new terms to describe sending work to cheaper labor markets.
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PARIS - Support for striking transport workers faltered yesterday, with some unions returning to work on the second day of a protest against government plans to scrap some retirement benefits and commuters grumbling about delays and crowded platforms.
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It can be tempting to think of labor unions as an antagonistic relic of an industrial economy and to forget about their lingering impact.
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A top union leader says it's time for Democratic presidential candidates to get up close and personal with union members.
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The union representing 23,000 Massachusetts nurses is putting its political muscle on display in contract negotiations with hospitals, part of a newly aggressive strategy that labor specialists say is in response to competition from a rival healthcare union.
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The clash over a controversial new labor contract at Chrysler has moved to the factory floor in suburban Michigan, where union officials fanned out this week trying to persuade their members to vote yes.
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U.S. unions, taking lessons and tactics learned from the effort to arrest organized labor's long decline, say next year's presidential election will be crucial to their resurgence.
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Union workers for Secretary of State Jesse White will return to the bargaining table this week after White&#39;s office determined that a contract agreement struck last month is too costly and would mean layoffs.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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John J. Sweeney is facing his first serious challenge as he seeks a fourth term -- and it is from his own base, the labor left. The AFL's 60 member unions will meet in July to choose the next president, but the struggle for votes has already begun.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls on Monday brandished their labor credentials before two of the nation's more powerful unions in a hunt for endorsements.
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Six months before the November elections, alarms sounded throughout the labor movement. A flurry of memos from the field warned that high-level rancor from the 2005 breakup of the AFL-CIO was gumming up political mobilization on the ground, threatening to blow the Democrats' opportunity to retake Congress....