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Published Wednesday, January 25, 2012
(FROM THE NATIONAL
AFL-CIO NEWS BLOG) - President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address made
it clear that he hears the people who aren’t being heard by the 1%, says National
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Obama’s speech showed he “listened to the
single mom working two jobs to get by, to the out-of-work Construction Worker,
to the retired Factory
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Published Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Editor’s Note:
National AFL-CIO Field Communications Staffer Cathy Sherwin sent this Labor
News Report to the National AFL-CIO News Now Blog from the Indiana Statehouse:
Despite overwhelming opposition across Indiana to the so-called Right-To-Work
(RTW) Bill, the Indiana State Senate on Monday (January 23rd)
passed its version of the Bill by a vote of
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Published Tuesday, January 24, 2012
(HEMPSTEAD)
– Teachers at the Evergreen Charter School
in Hempstead have won the right to organize and affiliate with New York State
United Teachers (NYSUT) Union, but only after a bitter fight that led to the
illegal firing of an 8˝-month pregnant Special Education Teacher for her work
in helping organize the Union.
Evergreen’s Board of Education was
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Published Tuesday, January 24, 2012
(FLUSHING)
– Registered Nurses (RNs) at Flushing Hospital will go out on strike at 7
a.m.
on Thursday, February 2nd after filing a Federally-required 10-day notice of
intent on Monday (January 23rd) with the National Labor Relations Board, Hospital
Management and local Police.
Union-Represented
Nurses At Flushing
Hospital OK A Strike As They
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Published Monday, January 23, 2012
Wisconsin Governor
Recall Effort Advances/Retirees Help Get A Million Signature
A million signatures were turned in last week to begin the
formal process of forcing a Recall Election for Republican Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker. The petitions delivered to the Government
Accountability Board arrived on a truck and weighed more than 3,000 pounds.
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Published Sunday, January 22, 2012
WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: The Niagara-Orleans
AFL-CIO Central Labor Council held its Annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday, January
18th at Lewiston Fire Company #2 on Saunders
Settlement Road in Niagara Falls before its largest attendance
ever. Pictured below - from left to right - are
several Labor Council Representatives and Champion At Work Award
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Published Sunday, January 22, 2012
News,
Notes & A Bunch Of Observations Made While Covering The Western
New York Labor Community Over The Past Week:
What a busy week last week was for WNYLaborToday.com:
It started
on Monday when we were in attendance for the changing of the guard at the
International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council
4’s monthly Union
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Published Sunday, January 22, 2012
(INDIANAPOLIS)
- The National Football League’s Players Association (NFLPA) is running onto
the political field, joining the team
opposed to the State of Indiana’s
Right-To-Work Legislation. With a little more than two weeks until the
Super Bowl will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium - home of the NFL’s Indianapolis
Colts - the NFLPA will join peaceful
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