Published: February 27, 2010
Tags: labor, Obama, SEIU, union, Vale AFL-CIO
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor’s high hopes for major gains under President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress have dimmed, raising fresh doubts about union leverage even in the best of political times.
Prospects for a health overhaul have faded. Even slimmer are the chances of achieving labor’s chief goal, passage of a [...]
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: Associated Builders and Contractors of America, Associated General Contractors of America, Becker, Craig Becker, Gottschalk, Hayes, labor, Liebman, management, Maranto, National Labor Relations Act, National Labor Relations Board, Pearce, Schaumber, Sweet, union
By Sean Ryan
Construction business groups fear the balance of power on the National Labor Relations Board could shift toward labor if a former union attorney fills one of three vacant seats.
Groups such as the Associated Builders & Contractors of America and Associated General Contractors of America oppose Craig Becker, one of two Democratic nominees, because, [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: ABC, Associated Builders and Contractors, Kline, labor, PLA, preferential treatment, project labor agreements, union, Worth
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors’ member Stephen Worth, president and CEO of Worth and Company, Inc., Pipersville, Pa., testified Thursday at a forum in the U.S. House of Representatives that was examining the preferential treatment big labor is receiving by the Obama administration and its allies on Capitol Hill, according to a press [...]
By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor leaders are pushing hard on President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to drop a proposed new tax on high-value health insurance plans, warning of political consequences.
The White House has indicated the tax may change so it hits fewer workers — but it’s not going away.
A Monday evening [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A union and some Democratic lawmakers are asking the University of Wisconsin System to sign a legal agreement that could make it easier for faculty and staff to organize unions.
AFT-Wisconsin wants the UW to sign a “neutrality agreement” that would govern the conduct of organizers and administrators during union drives.
Union spokeswoman [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin schools will be required to teach the history of organized labor under a bill signed by Gov. Jim Doyle.
The bill Doyle signed Thursday also requires Wisconsin schools to teach the history or collective bargaining.
The proposal has been around for years but never passed. This year it cleared the Democratic controlled [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Workers at a Harley-Davidson plant in south-central Pennsylvania say the union has voted to accept a contract that is designed to keep the plant there.
Workers leaving the York Expo Center after the Wednesday vote told reporters that the tally overwhelmingly favored ratification.
The York Daily Record and WGAL-TV each reported the vote [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Workers at the Harley-Davidson plant in south-central Pennsylvania are poised to vote on whether to accept a labor contract that could keep the plant there.
However, the contract up for a vote Wednesday also would pave the way for deep job cuts at the York plant. Union members will be gathering in [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A tentative contract agreement between Harley-Davidson and union members at its south-central Pennsylvania plant pledges that the motorcycle maker will stop efforts to relocate the operation to Kentucky.
The contract offer distributed to union members Friday and posted on the York Daily Record’s Web site could end the company’s exploration of whether [...]
By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state union bargaining unit representing about 1,100 engineers filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday seeking to stop temporary layoffs.
The union argued in the lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit Court that the state purposefully structured the layoffs so it could recoup unemployment compensation benefits the [...]
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