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…
Published 05 Jul, 2011 Conservative Governors in states around the country are sticking to their ideology that spending cuts will create jobs, despite the facts showing that government spending actually leads to economic growth and more jobs. As state governments push to slash budgets, a study by Adam Hersh, economist at the Center for American…