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An Indiana trades-union group proclaims on its website that a so-called right-to-work law would “be devastating for Hoosier workers” and would “lower wages and benefits for all Hoosier workers.”
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Read More »Union rep accuses state of double-dipping
Building trades workers employed by the state might be paying twice for pension benefits, a union representative is contending, because of the 2011 law that eliminated the bulk of their collective bargaining rights.
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Read More »By popular demand: UW-Madison Union South
Designers expected student input for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Union South project, but they scarcely imagined getting ideas from 20,000 people.
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Read More »Falk rallies union supporters
Union members and other backers of Democratic governor candidate Kathleen Falk say their get out the vote effort will spur her on to victory in the May 8 primary.
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Read More »Union at Maysteel accepts 3-year deal
Maysteel says union workers at the company's Allenton plant have voted to accept a three-year contract and call off a strike.
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Read More »Striking machinists could consider offer Friday
A union official says striking machinists at the Manitowoc Co. could vote on a settlement offer as soon as Friday.
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Read More »Manitowoc Cranes hires strikers’ replacements
Manitowoc Cranes has notified its striking machinists that it's hiring replacement workers to meet customer demand.
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Read More »New rule requires union rights posters at work
By SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has approved a new rule that requires private employers to display posters that tell workers about their right to form a union. The rule requires businesses to ...
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Read More »Wis. Dems plan to submit 2nd GOP recall petition
A Republican state senator will challenge signatures collected in an attempt to recall him.
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Read More »La Follette wants appeal dropped in union case (UPDATE)
Madison (AP) — Wisconsin's secretary of state has asked the state Supreme Court to drop an appeal made in his name that seeks to overturn a lower court judge's order barring the state's divisive new union rights law from taking effect.
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