Labor News And Notes Round-up

The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country ... Foxconn pledges to reform the plants in China where Apple products are made Clear Channel is laying people off in markets around the country The New York
By Kenneth Quinnell — March 31, 2012

The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country ...

  • Foxconn pledges to reform the plants in China where Apple products are made
  • Clear Channel is laying people off in markets around the country
  • The New York Times has offered some movement in the right direction, but there is still a big gap between them and their workers
  • German legal scholars and politicians call on German companies with U.S. subsidiaries to abandon anti-union tactics
  • The Newspaper Guild of New York is outsourcing jobs at McGraw-Hill
  • Florida workers were fired for wearing orange shirts
  • Apparently, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's aides used a secret router to conduct allegedly illegal conversations on government time
  • A Miami judge rules a local anti-wage theft ordinance is legal
  • Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum argue over who hates unions more
  • CEO pay continued to rise in 2011
  • Pennsylvania Republicans go after the state's prevailing wage laws
  • Societal basics are out of reach for minimum wage workers
  • A guide to union-made Easter candy

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