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Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Too Close to Call
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. - The race between a conservative-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and a little-known challenger fueled by a wave of anger over the state's divisive new union rights law was too close to call early Wednesday morning. Unofficial returns from Tuesday's election showed Justice David Prosser and his opponent, JoAnne Kloppenburg, were separated by fewer than 600 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting. The contest was close enough that a recount appeared likely. Under Wisconsin election law, a candidate has three days after the official results have been tallied to ...
Unions Mark MLK's Death With National Protests
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed more than four decades ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights. Martin Luther King III joined about 1,000 marchers in Atlanta and thousands more across the country to support workers' rights on the anniversary of his father's assassination. King was in Memphis, Tenn., supporting a black municipal sanitation workers strike April 4, 1968, when he was shot to death on a hotel balcony. Andy Manis, AP Union ...
Ohio House to Vote on Collective Bargaining Limits
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio bill that would limit collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers was poised for a vote before the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday, one of its final hurdles before the measure goes to the governor. The vote comes a day after a legislative committee approved changes to make the bill even tougher for unions. Met with chants of "Shame on you!" from nearby protesters, the GOP-backed revisions greased the measure for what was expected to be smooth passage in the House. The Senate, also controlled by Republicans, narrowly passed the bill on a 17-16 ...
Labor Talks in Full Roar Again, But It's Not the Same
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Labor is roaring again, like in the old days. But it's a wounded sound now. In the bitter aftermath of a showdown with Wisconsin's governor, and as other states move to weaken public employee bargaining rights, unions and their allies dare to hope they can turn rage into revival. This could be a make-or-break moment for a movement that brought the nation the 40-hour week, overtime pay, upward mobility, a storied century of brawls, progressivism and corruption -- and now a struggle to stay relevant in the modern age. Mark Hoffman, Pool / AP Wisconson Secretary of ...
Wisconsin Labor Protesters Say Next Fight at the Polls
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. - Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended on Madison again Saturday and vowed to focus on future elections now that contentious cuts to public worker union rights have become law. Protests have rocked the Capitol almost every day since Gov. Scott Walker proposed taking nearly all collective bargaining rights away from public workers, but the largest came a day after the governor signed the measure into law. Madison Police estimated the crowd at 85,000 to 100,000 people - along with 50 ...
Opinion: Labor's Last Stand
By not in system - AOL NewsProtests continue in Wisconsin, and around the country, over the threats to curtail bargaining rights and cut benefits of public-sector unions. But the wake-up call to labor has come late, and the targets of the protests are much too narrow to reverse labor's flagging course. Anti-labor Republicans are rightly emboldened to take on the public-sector unions, but their true impetus is hardly the low-turnout midterm elections that swept many of them into office. Instead, the decades-long success of anti-labor forces in crippling private-sector unionism, which now stands at less than 7 percent of ...
Ohio Senate Limits Public Union Rights; Bill Goes Beyond Wisconsin Proposal
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAn Ohio bill cutting more deeply into the public employee bargaining rights than similar legislation in Wisconsin narrowly passed the state senate and looks like a good bet to clear the House of Representatives in Columbus. Shouts of "shame" echoed through statehouse corridors Wednesday after the measure won 17-16 approval, with six Republicans breaking away to join all 10 Democrats in opposing it. The GOP has a hefty majority in the other body, where House Speaker Bill Batchelder has promised ample hearings on the bargaining bill. But it is expected to pass, and then get signed into law by ...
Ohio SB 5: The Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill Explained
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday the Ohio Senate will consider Senate Bill 5, which was just approved by the state's Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee in a 7-5 vote. SB 5, as it's known, is sponsored by Sen. Shannon Jones, a first-term Republican from Ohio's 7th District. The bill takes aim at state collective bargaining laws, and opponents have dubbed it an anti-labor or anti-union bill. Jones told the Youngstown Business Journal: "We cannot restore our economy and create jobs if we keep raising the tax burden on Ohioans, and the only way to get that under control is to limit the growth of government. Senate ...
Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Cutting Rights of Public Employee Unions
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAn overwhelming majority of Americans oppose taking away some of the collective bargaining rights that public employee unions now have and almost as many oppose cutting the pay or benefits of those workers, according to a nationwide New York Times/CBS News poll conducted Feb. 24-27. The bargaining rights issue has taken center stage in Wisconsin, where pro-union demonstrators continue to sit in at the statehouse, and in Ohio, where Democrats and Republicans are battling over it in the state Legislature. In both states, Republicans are pushing measures that would eliminate collective ...
Screen Actors Guild in Solidarity With Wisconsin Protesters
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI've been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since the early 1990s when the McLaughlin Group had a cameo appearance in the movie "Dave." Hollywood director Ivan Reitman came to Washington to film us, and when the lines written for us failed to elicit the spirited debate the group is known for, Reitman went to Plan B. He described the plot of the movie, which has a president falling into a coma and a lookalike taking his place, and the confusion that ensues. He told us to talk about it like we would any other issue, and that's what we did. At the end, John McLaughin, creator and host of the ...
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