Published 17 Jun, 2011 Unions are challenging the Wisconsin law that eliminates collective bargaining for public workers by filing suit in federal court to have the law blocked. On June 15 the Wisconsin State Supreme Court overruled a lower court’s injunction on the law, thus clearing the legislation to be implemented. In response, a coalition…
Published 21 Jun, 2011 Workers in Illinois are mobilizing to stop a bill in the Illinois legislature that would eliminate collective bargaining for thousands of public workers. This is just the latest threat to workers’ rights and the middle class that is spreading across the country. The bill, S.B. 1556, was passed by the state…
Published 29 Jun, 2011 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking an important step to make union elections fairer by proposing changes to speed up the often delayed and difficult election process, but the changes still fall short of fundamental labor law reform that American workers need to fully exercise their voice on the…
Published 05 Jul, 2011 Two children of TWU members have been awarded college scholarships in the 2011 Union Plus Scholarship Program along with 128 other students from union households. Danielle Felde of Marengo, IL, whose father John Felde is a member of TWU Local 512 and whose mother also is a union member, has been…