Labor News
Unions Applaud Labor Board's Complaint Against Boeing Share
Stewart Acuff, Utility Workers Union of America Chief of Staff & Assistant to the President, discusses grievance with Boeing, one of the nation's largest employers on Your World Cavuto. Watch Video

Workers Memorial Day 2011 Share
Workers Memorial Day is observed to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe workplaces. Each year thousands of workers are killed and millions more injured or diseased because of their jobs. More than three decades ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising every worker the right to a safe job. Unions and our allies have fought hard to make that promise a reality—winning protections that have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented millions of workplace injuries. On Workers Memorial Day, we will continue that fight. We will fight to create good jobs in this country. We will fight for the freedom of workers to form unions, to have a voice and bargain for safe jobs, respect and a better future. We will demand that the country fulfill the promise of safe jobs. Read More

States of Denial
Legislature Looks At Education Cuts Share
State aid for K-12 education would be reduced by $340 per student and schools would get only half an allowance for half-day kindergartners under a budget to be voted on today by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Read More

“Emergency Powers” Dictatorship Seizes a Michigan City Share
Appointed to take over the predominantly working-class, African-American city, Harris seized control over the duties and responsibilities held by Benton Harbor's elected officials, its commissions, and its financial resources. One particularly disturbing controversy centered on the privatization of parkland owned by the city, which may subsequently be sold to build a luxury golf course. Read More

How many firefighters does it take to pay a CEO? Share
Now, consider this: In 2010, the average pay of a CEO at a major American company went up by 23 percent—to $11.4 million. Despite the collapse of the financial markets at the hands of many of these same executives less than three years ago, the disparity between CEO and workers’ pay has continued to grow to levels that are simply stunning. Read More

Christie Estimates Changes In Employee Benefits Will Save $870M a Year Share
Gov. Chris Christie estimates his plan to overhaul the state’s public employee health benefits system will save more than $870 million a year by 2014 by shifting a significant percentage of the costs to employees and future retirees, according to the Treasury Department. Read More

Koch Brothers Tell Workers How to Vote Share
The right-wing extremist billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch not only finance blatantly anti-worker front groups, they also want to control how the more than 50,000 people who work in their companies think and vote. Experts say employers likely will send out more of this political propaganda in 2012. Read More

Related News
Airport Screeners Need Runoff to Pick a Union Share
Labor leaders were pleased that 84 percent of the screeners who voted favored a union, saying it showed that many government employees still wanted to bargain collectively, even when public employees are on the defensive in places like Wisconsin and Ohio, where state leaders have largely curtailed the right of public sector unions to bargain. Read More

New Battery Produces Electricity Where Freshwater Meets Saltwater Share
Scientists long have known about the possibility of producing electricity from differences in the salinity, or saltiness, of water. So the new study focused on development of more practical ways of tapping that potential. Read More

NASA Releases Scorecard on Energy and Sustainability Goals Share
On April 19, 2011, NASA released its fiscal year 2010 scorecard on sustainability and energy performance. Out of seven benchmarks, NASA received five green and two yellow ratings. Green ratings indicate that metrics have been met, and yellow indicates that progress is being made. This is the first year federal agencies have published their scorecards. Read More

Human Rights
New Jersey Bans Discrimination Against Unemployed, Hound Finds 17,000 Jobs in State Share
The bill came in the backdrop of employers increasingly and openly advertising their vacancies saying that they do not want unemployed people to apply. Now employers in New Jersey cannot do that in either their print or online advertisements. The bill is the first of its kind to be passed by any state in the country. Its proponents say that this measure may inspire other states to do the same to address what they see as an increasingly bigger problem. Read More