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NLRB Warns States Not to Restrict Workers’ Organizing Rights

Jan 20, 2011

The National Labor Relations Board is threatening lawsuits against four states for violating federal law and the U.S. Constitution in their attempts to restrict the rights of workers to organize unions.

At issue are state constitutional amendments that voters in Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah approved Nov. 2, acting . . . → Read More: NLRB Warns States Not to Restrict Workers’ Organizing Rights

Wisconsin: Walker Rejects Workers’ Offer to Take Cuts to Save Unions

Feb 25, 2011

Local 4630

Members of CWA Local 4630 in Madison outside the Wisconsin statehouse, where the nation’s firestorm of workers’ protests began nearly two weeks ago.

Proving that Gov. Scott Walker is using budget concerns as a cover for union-busting, leaders of state employee unions said they would accept the governor’s demands for pension and health care cuts as long as he stops trying to kill collective bargaining rights.

Walker flatly refused, showing no respect for the offer or the tens of thousands of people continuing to demonstrate outside the state capitol and in cities throughout Wisconsin.

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