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  • Bed Bath and Broke: Warehouse Workers Go for Election
    Mischa Gaus
    May 23 2012 - 4:32pm

    Warehouse workers organizing in key logistics hubs across the country could get a boost from a union vote at a Bed Bath and Beyond distribution center in New Jersey, where immigrant workers filed for a Labor Board election today.

  • Wisconsin’s New Bad Idea
    Eleni Schirmer & Lenora Hanson
    May 21 2012 - 6:55pm

    Governor Scott Walker singled out employees of the University of Wisconsin for special treatment in his budget-cutting and union-busting. Now they're facing unilateral policies that seek a “market-based model” for pay.

  • New York Nurses Take Back Their Union, Push for Safe Staffing
    Mark Brenner
    May 18 2012 - 10:52am

    New York nurses upended the 100-year power imbalance between bedside nurses and nurse managers yesterday, voting to bar managers and put the union in the hands of the nurses who comprise 99 percent of membership.