Labor News And Notes Round-Up

The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country... There is widespread sexual abuse of women farmworkers U.S. House Oversight Committee members are asking Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker if he wants to recant his
By Kenneth Quinnell — May 29, 2012

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

  • There is widespread sexual abuse of women farmworkers
  • U.S. House Oversight Committee members are asking Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker if he wants to recant his testimony to Congress now that documents contradict his statment
  • The Wisconsin recalls are going to be down to the wire
  • Can the voting machines being used in the Wisconsin recall be trusted?
  • Conservatives are targeting teachers who signed petitions to recall Scott Walker
  • Find out which Democrats failed to vote to protect the use of project labor agreements in Department of Defense projects and which Republicans voted on the side of working families
  • UFCW has released a new app for smartphones that helps consumers shop union
  • The U.s. compares very poorly to similar countries in terms of paid maternity leave
  • New York Republicans are blocking a minimum wage increase
  • It seems Mitt Romney's entire education agenda is bashing unions and Obama
  • Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie is requiring PLAs to be used on future state-funded construction projects
  • Amazon is the latest corporation to drop ALEC
  • The New Jersey AFL-CIO is launching a massive voter registration campaign
  • Louisiana Republicans are trying to make it illegal for cities to require workers to have paid sick days
  • Craig Becker is the new general counsel for the AFL-CIO
  • Broadway worker unions are protesting the use of non-union workers to stage the production of Empire

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