Latest News - August 2014

August 20, 2014
Central Line Tube strike: Union backs walkout on Friday in dispute over working conditions
Source: London Evening Standard
By: ROBIN DE PEYER

August 20, 2014
Local official pleads guilty in Juneau to embezzling $40,000 in Carpenters Union funds
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

August 19, 2014
Company accuses labor union of forging signatures for political gain
Source: watchdog.org
By: By Adam Tobias

August 18, 2014
Machinists, Textron consider negotiating a single contract
Source: The Wichita Eagle
By: MOLLY MCMILLIN

August 18, 2014
San Francisco teachers union threatens strike as students return to school
Source: KTVU.com and wires

August 15, 2014
Division of labor: CTU wants Rahm out, but trade unions back him
Source: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
By: NATASHA KORECKI

August 12, 2014
Times Square Elmos, Supermans, and Hello Kittys Are Meeting Today to Discuss Starting a Labor Union
Source: New York Magazine
By: Jessica Roy

August 12, 2014
Market Basket a rare case in labor world
Singular focus unites nonunion workers
Source: The Boston Globe
By: Deirdre Fernandes

August 11, 2014
Unions going to war over luxury hotel workers
Source: New York Post
By: Carl Campanile

August 11, 2014
Enstar employees strike over contract dispute
Source: Alaska Dispatch News
By: Sean Doogan

August 7, 2014
Union Organizing in 2014
Source: PTI Labor Research
By: Susan Connelly

August 7, 2014
Sen. Thune Introduces Bill to Combat Union Corruption
Source: National Legal and Policy Center
By: Carl Horowitz