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Virginia’s House has passed a bill to preclude efforts to make easier workplaces to unionize. The bill passed 63-32 Friday seeks to prevent “card check” from being put in place administratively by the National Labor Relations Board.

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Attorneys general in four states joined together to say they’ll fight back if the federal government carries out its threat to file lawsuits over the states’ new constitutional amendments that require secret-ballot elections before a company can be unionized.

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Four states are vowing to fight the federal government in a bid to preserve state measures that guarantee workers the right to secret ballots in union elections.

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Some of the same business groups President Barack Obama is courting with his regulatory review and support for a corporate-tax overhaul said Thursday they would fight his renomination of former union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.

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If President Obama is going all centrist and bipartisan, why did he re-nominate radical union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, especially after his first nomination was blocked by Republicans and even a few Democrats in the … Continue reading

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Craig Becker, a Democrat on the U.S. National Labor Relations Board who has been criticised by business groups for his ties to unions, was re-nominated by President Barack Obama to serve until 2014.

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Barack Obama spent Tuesday night telling the American people that he understood the midterm message as the electorate demanding that Democrats and Republicans need to work together in the final two years of his term as President.

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President Obama has triggered a new fight with Republicans by re-nominating two controversial officials to key administration posts.

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Republicans in the Indiana House have filed bills that would prevent workers from being required to pay union dues, an issue considered so divisive that Gov. Mitch Daniels would prefer to avoid it.

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As the year ends, many people are already looking back on 2010 as a historic time of political upheaval. But one of the year’s biggest political developments has been mostly overlooked.

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President Barack Obama tended to his frayed relations with Big Labor on Friday, assuring leaders he won’t short-change workers while negotiating with energized Republicans and reaching out to the business community.

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With its decision in the matter concerning the Dana Corporation, the NLRB decided in favor of Big Labor and against workers and small businesses by sanctioning card check in American workplaces.

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Now that the Republicans will soon control the House, everyone expects President Obama to start actively exercising his executive authority.

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When Americans think of organized labor, they might think of images like I saw growing up in a blue-collar meatpacking town: hard hats, work boots, tough conditions and gritty jobs.

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Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, you just gave Big Labor a $3.3 million tip. Not for exceptional service, mind you. Just for wearing the union label.

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When Delta merged with Northwest Airlines two and a half years ago, it set the stage for an epic Big Business–Big Labor battle. Northwest was heavily unionized, but at Delta, only the pilots and flight dispatchers belonged to labor organizations.

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