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Recent Articles about AFL-CIO

Nation's Largest Union Group Sues Labor Department Over Safety Equipment

The AFL-CIO claims that companies should be required to pay for employees' protective gear.  Read more

Teamsters, SEIU Disaffiliate from AFL-CIO

July 26, 2005 --The leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Service Employees' International Union, two unions in th...  Read more

Union Organizing;

DESPERATE TO REVERSE ITS STEEP decline, American labor has embarked on a new strategy to concentrate power in its high command. The plan could make organ...  Read more

Solidarity Forever

Along with the crocuses and daffodils come tentative signs this spring of renewed labor union activity in the high-tech industry: * Led by organizer...  Read more

The Changing Face of Unions

Last night, I went to Expedia to book a plane ticket home to Minneapolis, a hub of Northwest Airlines . Expecting to reser...  Read more

Are You A Bad Boss?

If you're one of those bosses who believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the bottom line, beware: "Lawmakers across the country are considering legisl...  Read more

Feds to Revise No-Match Rule

A move to punish employers who hire illegal workers is shelved to assess its impact on small business.  Read more

The Hole Truth About Capital

Between big companies on one side and small start-ups on the other stretches the Grand Canyon of capital formation.  Read more

Labor Pain;

THE COMMUNICATIONS WORKers of America (CWA) used to have a simple answer for employees of small companies who asked to join: Forget it. Such workpla...  Read more

New Leadership at OSHA

Will the Sago mine tragedy affect attitudes toward workplace safety?  Read more

Agenda 8/06

August is historically a dicey month in terms of labor strife. So throw a company cookout and make peace, already.  Read more

More Mush from the Wimps

AFL-CIO economist John Zalusky's argument that big companies benefit the economy more than small ones do.  Read more

Pick A Pack Of Pols

The article "Picking a PAC" by Tom Richman (August) heralds the ultimate erosion of our democratic system and underscores the contempt that business exhib...  Read more

Business Groups Launch Campaign Against AOL

The online provider's plan to charge fees for bulk e-mail has drawn widespread criticism.  Read more

Business Groups Launch Campaign Against AOL

The online provider's plan to charge fees for bulk e-mail has drawn widespread criticism.  Read more

Agenda 5/06

Sports records abound this month; use Memorial Day to set one of your own.  Read more

Home Is Where The Work Is

The scattered ranks of home-based business operators are forming up to battle an apparent attack on homework by unions. Homework in the outerwear and wome...  Read more

Judge Says 'No' to No-Match

Yesterday Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California halted implementation of the "no match rule," effectively undermining the Bush admin...  Read more

New Website Tracks Worker Injuries

An AFL-CIO affiliate has posted data on 60,000 companies online.  Read more

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Living in the Past

Some voters have abandoned the Democratic party because of its failure to support small, nonunion companies.  Read more

Minimum-Wage Increase: A Blow to Small Businesses?

While critics say the House bill will hurt business owners, many companies are already paying higher wages.  Read more

Gulf Coast Businesses Picking Up the Pieces -- Slowly

Nov. 4, 2005 --Ralph Brennan counts himself lucky. In the two months since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, he's kept two of his ...  Read more

A Failure To Communicate

Small business may have a special Presidential report, but until some more fundamental changes occur, it will never have much clout with the President.  Read more

Medical Leave Changes Expected

Feb. 25, 2005 -- With the U.S. Department of Justice poised to propose changes in the decade-old Family and Medical Leave Act, a study re...  Read more

Mail

This month's feedback.  Read more

Ergonomics

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The Little State That Could

Rhode Island thinks it can, it thinks it can, it thinks it can.  Read more

A Debate over Workers' Rights

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The Great Fund Failure

Mutual funds were designed to let the small guy invest in the market cheaply and efficiently. The system doesn't work, though, when fund investors are to...  Read more

Network: March 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

NAFTA History?

There was no ambiguity in last night's Democratic debate when it came to NAFTA. Both candidates plainly said that they were willing to dump the trade trea...  Read more

Economist;

His "share economy" may be the best new idea since Keynes: substituting profit sharing for fixed wages as a cure for unemployment.  Read more

National Labor Relation Board (NLRB)

Related Terms: Labor Unions The National Labor Relat...  Read more

Courting Bankruptcy

When the president of Bildisco filed for Chapter 11, he didn't know he would be rewriting the bankruptcy laws.  Read more

Equal Pay for Equal Work

A federal law, the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206), requires employers to pay all employees equally for equal work, regardless of their gender. It was pa...  Read more

The Private War Of James Sullivan

More than 1,800 product liability lawsuits have transformed Pacor Inc. into a legal battlefield.  Read more