By Sean Ryan Two of the nation’s largest construction associations oppose a health care reform bill because, they argue, it threatens competition and would boost the cost of doing business. “All around, it’s an awful deal,” said Geoff Burr, vice ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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