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Major union feels sting of SCOTUS decision - TheDC

| Kevin Mooney
AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders

AFSCME officials worry decision barring unions from spending dues on political activism without notice will diminish labor’s clout

Union woes 'related to their own management issues,' not labor laws - TheDC

| Eshe Nelson
AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders

‘Many labor unions are going through a real struggle. … But it’s not related to labor laws’

Union aims to organize the unemployed - TheDC

| Caroline May
Unemployment Benefits

‘Our objective is to pull together unemployed Americans in a way that allows them to … press their political leaders’

Maddow: Without unions, 'Democrats do not have a way to compete' - TheDC

| Michelle Fields

‘That is the reality now in Wisconsin. It is the reality in states where they have essentially eliminated unions rights’

Labor union sues Indiana, calls working alongside nonunion employees 'slavery' - TheDC

| David Martosko
Circa 1800:  Slaves picking cotton on a plantation.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Overlaid with anti-Right-to-Work banner from a protest at the Indiana state capitol.

Labor union sues Indiana, calls working alongside nonunion employees ‘slavery’

Labor Dept. docs: MSNBC's Ed Schultz on labor union payrolls since 2005 - TheDC

| Adam Jablonowski
Ed Schultz - AP

Shultz received $190,000 for ‘representational activities’ in 2011

Secretive nationwide network gives SEIU new organizing muscle - TheDC

| Richard Pollock
"This Is Our DC" activists hold "We are the 99%" and mix with "Occupy DC" protesters during a protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. (Reason TV)

Secretive nationwide network gives SEIU new organizing muscle

Unionized workers organize against National Labor Relations Board - TheDC

| Adam Jablonowski
Norma Rae

Flyer: ‘Acting General Counsel and Chairman Declare War on NLRB Employees’

Indiana enacts right-to-work law - AP

| admin
Indiana Right to Work

Gov. Mitch Daniels signs bill prohibiting labor contracts that require workers to pay union representation fees

Obama praises teachers for adding 10 cents to students' lifetime hourly earnings - TheDC

| David Martosko
getty-114169313

President praises teachers for adding $250,000 to ‘lifetime income of a classroom’

Union-backed Dems submit 1 million signatures to recall Wisc. governor - TheDC

| Matthew Boyle
Wisconsin Governor Recall

Only 540,208 valid signatures needed to force a summer recall election

Obama's new chief of staff Jack Lew a 'union-buster' - TheDC

| Matthew Boyle
Obama Chief of Staff

During his tenure at New York University, Lew played hardball when threatened with a graduate student labor union strike

Electricians' union pays protesters to 'intercept' activists opposing stadium construction - TheDC

| David Martosko
San Francisco 49ers

As opposition to $1 billion 49ers arena grows, unions plan to disrupt opponents’ momentum

Indiana GOP zeroes in on 'right to work' law, despite Dems going AWOL - TheDC

| David Martosko
Indiana Right To Work

‘Unions are big contributors to the Democrats … It simply comes down to that’

Labor unions primary recipients of Obamacare waivers - TheDC

| Paul Conner
Labor Pains

Seven times the number of unions workers as private sector employees received waivers from the law

Occupy DC members disillusioned by union overseers' tight grip [VIDEO] - TheDC

| InternAdmin

‘It’s like they have their own event, and this is our event’

As strike deadline looms for unionized rail workers, Congress prepares to intervene - TheDC

| F. Vincent Vernuccio
Railroad

House leaders promise action ‘to avert a job-destroying shutdown of our nation’s railroads’

Obama hides from XL pipeline decision as constituencies squabble - TheDC

| Neil Munro
Washington Pipeline Protest

Big Labor vs. Big Green: 435,000 jobs vs. global warming

Labor board's lawyer lauded by the American Bar Association - TheDC

| Neil Munro
Court Gavel

‘Your career as a dedicated civil servant represents an example and an ideal’

NLRB reform legislation aims at treating 'disease,' not just 'symptoms' - TheDC

| Matthew Boyle
Austin Scott

Rep. Austin Scott’s bil would weaken the NLRB politically, still allowing it to oversee union elections and deal with labor disputes