Today in 2011 A crowd estimated to be 100,000 strong rallied at the Wisconsin state Capitol in protest of what ultimately was to become a successful push by the state’s Republican majority to cripple public employee bargaining rights.
• Senate passes new Nafta, but much work remains • Getting the real facts: 10 journalism brands to follow • Improving federal law for pregnant workers • WNBA and players reach tentative 8-year labor deal • Steelworkers sue EPA to save anti-chemical disaster rule • State legislative staff in DE first in nation to seek to unionize • Why everyone should care who the new postmaster general is • FedEx mounts big-money push to counter unionization by US workers • One astounding chart shows why economic inequality has increased • House to vote on sweeping labor law reform by mid-February
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