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• in Politics
  Chicago Kids Get The Middle Finger From Teachers. Let Em Eat Cake!
  Children suffer while teachers union gets greedy.
  by leovou / on Sep 11, 2012
• in Politics
  The New American Politics: Voting with Dollars
  The future of democracy rests in how you spend your paycheck.
  by jimmyzuma / on Jun 7, 2012
• in Finance
  Canadian Public Needs a Protracted Air Canada Strike
  The Canadian government's meddling to avert a strike at Air Canada is likely to push Air Canada to bankruptcy protection.
  by debstwins / on Mar 11, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “unions”

 

• (First Things On the Square Blog) Elizabeth Scalia—Gay Marriage: Whose Yes, Whose No?

  
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  I recently received the following message from a stranger: “So basically, the ‘orthodox Catholic’ game you all play is just that . . . a game?” It was in reference to a Catholic man with whom I am friendly, and like very much. She had apparently read on social media that this man was planning to marry another ...
  8 hours ago

• Why the government are keen to use trade unions as a scapegoat

  
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  “Mike Bassett did a better job as bloody England manager than David Cameron has as Prime Minister” Ricky Tomlinson tells me as he pauses for photos with union members at UNISON’s annual conference in Liverpool. Ricky’s just delivered a powerful opening speech to 2,000 UNISON members packed into the Echo Arena. ...
  10 hours ago

• Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt – If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit

  
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  by  Michael Eventually the money runs out.  Much of America was shocked when the city of Detroit defaulted on a $39.7 million debt payment and announced that it was suspending payments on  $2.5 billion  of unsecured debt, but those who visit my site  on a regular basis were probably not too surprised.  ...
  2 days ago

• Turkish trade unions call for strike

  
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  Workers urged to leave jobs on Monday afternoon and converge on Taksim Square, scene of weeks of anti-government protests Turkish trade unions urged their members to walk out of work on Monday and join demonstrations in response to a widespread police crackdown against activists following weeks of street protests. ...
  2 days ago

• Turkish trade unions call for strike

  
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  Workers urged to leave jobs on Monday afternoon and converge on Taksim Square, scene of weeks of anti-government protests Turkish trade unions urged their members to walk out of work on Monday and join demonstrations in response to a widespread police crackdown against activists following weeks of street protests. ...
  2 days ago

• Labour has raised the white flag on free schools. It’s just going to re-brand them ‘parent academies’

  
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  I sympathise with Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary. From the moment he was appointed, he made it clear that he doesn’t oppose free schools. I suspect that his attitude towards them in private is the same as Andrew Adonis’s and, like his close colleague, he believes Labour should take credit for them. ...
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• Weekend bus strike if drivers are still unhappy

  
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  BUS drivers have warned CT Plus it has until end of business on Thursday to make improvements to their working conditions or else they will go on strike at the weekend.
  2 days ago

• Workers seen as battery hens: union

  
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  Filed under: Career Robert Aberman/Eye Ubiquitous/Press Association Images Workers who have to "hot desk" in crowded offices are being treated like "human battery hens", a union has complained. Unison said that as councils and utility companies made cuts, many call centres allocated desks on a first-come, ...
  2 days ago

• Paul Gorrell, Ph.D.: The End of DOMA Means the End of Civil Unions

  
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  VFS Entertainment Business Management Students in Class Image by vancouverfilmschool Each classroom in features a 60" plasma screen television. Find out more about VFS’s one-year Entertainment Business Management program at vfs.com/ebm . While many want the gay marriage fight to be state by state, ...
  2 days ago

• Israel: Bill to Allow Civil Unions Proposed

  
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  from Google Maps Israel’s Justice Minister is proposing allowing civil unions for LGBT couples. Gay Star News reports : Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, has announced that she is on Sunday to present to ministers a bill to allow civil unions for gay couples. The bill to recognise same-sex civil unions would ...
  3 days ago

• Defying gravity – the teacher unions

  
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  This is a guest post from Martin Brown, the editor of Education for Tomorrow. It’s ridiculous. If you’re a classroom teacher working in England you have a choice of three TUC-affiliated unions competing for your membership. If you’re a teacher in Wales you have a choice of four. That could mean separate ...
  3 days ago

• Did Nepotism Charges Lead To Action On Act 10?

  
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  A few days ago, Lisa Kaiser of the Shepherd Express , broke the story of the nepotism, cronyism and favoritism that has been going on at the states Department of Human Services in Milwaukee County. I added my two cents by pointing out that due to Act 10, there is a greater rate of turnover of workers, making ...
  3 days ago

• Sweden braces for traffic chaos amid strike threats

  
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  As unions threaten to pull bus, train and underground staff, commuters may experience severe disruptions ahead of the Midsummer weekend. … Read More
  3 days ago

• Balance of Labour

  
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  The MacDoctor’s sole reaction to Jami-Lee Ross’ bill to remove Section 97 from the Employment Relations Act 2000 was one of astonishment. The MacDoctor had no idea that section 97 prohibited the use of temporary contract labour to mitigate a strike. US employers are allowed to hire permanent contract labour, ...
  3 days ago

• Construction safety responsibility hanging in the balance

  
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  From the Daily News : The Scaffold Law is the last of its kind in the nation. The thrust of it is this: If a construction worker using scaffolding or a ladder is injured, the burden is on the contractor to prove the job site was safe. But now a furious battle is unfolding in Albany to remake the law, pitting some ...
  3 days ago

• Religious bigot Newman witch-hunts secular Labour woman

  
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  Above: secular campaigners of all races. ‘Cardinal’ Newman doesn’t like this. The misnamed Socialist Unity blog seeks to witch-hunt a Labour Party woman who dares to fight for secularism: The increasingly bizarre religious apologist Andy ‘Cardinal’ Newman writes: I first came across Anne Marie ...
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• NZ Herald plagiarist declares MP’s bill “mean spirited”

  
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  I note with wry amusement that this week’s column is a lot shorter.   Not easy to write your own stuff, is it ? Industrial strikes were a part and parcel of growing up in the 1970s and 80s. My first job as a journalist at the age of 18 was to report the outcome of a meeting between the management and the union ...
  3 days ago

• Democrats and the National School Board

  
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  Nationwide Andrew Malcom brings us a useful topic of discussion for the weekend, coming in the form of Senator Lamar Alexander delivering the GOP’s weekly remarks. A portion of his remarks focus on the pending battle over student loan fees and the competing plans being put forth by Republicans and Democrats. But ...
  3 days ago

• Op-Ed Guest Columnist: The Not-So-Good Old Days

  
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  The idyllic 1950s and ’60s? Wages went further, but rights and opportunities for many were severely limited.        
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• This week in the War on Workers: Is Walmart trying to weaken its workforce by hiring more temps?

  
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  Because Walmarts labor practices werent bad enough already: A Reuters survey of 52 stores run by the largest U.S. private employer in the past month, including one in every U.S. state, showed that 27 were hiring only temps, 20 were hiring a combination of regular full, part-time and temp jobs, and five were not ...
  4 days ago

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