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Drug users form union for political clout

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 10:21am

SAN FRANCISCO -- Heroin shooters, speed users, pot smokers and even some men and women who now are drug-free convene regularly in this city's gritty Tenderloin district -- not for treatment, but to discuss public health policy and share their experiences free from shame or blame.

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(ROBERT K. YOSAY/The Associated Press) Firefighters, police officers and supporters cheer Tuesday night, Nov. 8, 2011, in Youngstown, Ohio, after Ohio voters defeated the state’s new collective bargaining law. The law would have limited the bargaining abilities of 350,000 unionized public workers.

Ohio voters reject Republican-backed union limits

Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 8:41am

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment.

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(TONY DEJAK/The Associated Press) In this Nov. 3, 2011 photo, opponents of Issue 2 await the arrival of Ohio Gov. John Kasich for a rally in Independence, Ohio. A momentous showdown over Ohio’s tough new restrictions on public employee unions culminates Tuesday in a vote that will resound nationally in a crucial victory for the embattled labor movement or a backlash against government spending.

Eyes of nation on Ohio vote on union-limiting law

Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 4:14pm

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A ballot battle in Ohio that pits the union rights of public workers against Republican efforts to shrink government and limit organized labor’s reach culminates Tuesday in a vote with political consequences from statehouses to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Romney waffles on anti-union law in Ohio

Philip Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 1:36pm

FAIRFAX, Va. -- A day after he refused to endorse an Ohio ballot measure that limits public employee union rights, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is "110 percent" behind the effort.

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(PAUL SAKUMA/The Associated Press) In this file photo taken Feb. 28, 2011, a new 2011 Chrysler 200 is on display at a dealership in Burlingame, Calif. The United Auto Workers has asked local union leaders from Chrysler factories to meet in Detroit, normally a sign the union has agreed to a new contract with an automaker.

Chrysler, UAW agree on new contract

Dee-Ann Durbin, Tom Krisher The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 7:36am

DETROIT — Chrysler Group LLC and the United Auto Workers negotiators agreed on a new four-year contract early Wednesday that creates 2,100 new jobs.

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(DAVID KARP/The Associated Press) Derek Fisher, president of the NBA players union, talks with reporters, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, in New York. NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the basketball season after players and owners were unable to reach a new labor deal to end the lockout.

No Deal: NBA cancels first two weeks of season

Brian Mahoney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 7:58am

NEW YORK — Two weeks of NBA games are lost. Many more could be in jeopardy.

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NTEU plans fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity

Dave Greiling Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 11:01pm

OGDEN -- The National Treasury Employees Union will hold a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at Lindquist Field.

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Teachers union seeks proof that Ogden School District didn't break laws

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 11:31pm

OGDEN -- The American Federation of Teachers, Utah chapter, has accused the Ogden School Board of breaking two Utah laws and has requested the board release documents and recordings related to non-negotiated teacher contracts sent out in July.

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(RICK WOOD/The Associated Press) Alberta Darling speaks with Charles Benson, WTMJ reporter as she talks about the election results. She was greeting supporters at her recall victory party at Shully's in Thiensville, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. With 68 percent of precincts reporting, Pasch was ahead 51 percent to 49 percent.

Wisconsin GOP's stand could reverberate elsewhere

Scott Bauer The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 7:51am

MADISON, Wis. — A stand by Wisconsin Republicans against a massive effort to oust them from power could reverberate across the country as the battle over union rights and the conservative revolution heads toward the 2012 presidential race.

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Associated Press file photo) Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman works the crowd as he marches in the Fourth of July parade in Amherst, N.H. He is hoping to be the Republican nominee for president.

Huntsman addresses spending limits, union, war

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 11:43pm

GREER, S.C. — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who would like to be the Republican nominee in the White House race, said Monday he’s not about to sign the spending limit pledge that a South Carolina senator has turned into a threshold test for 2012 presidential hopefuls seeking his support.

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Unions will find retail no easy target

Jim Spencer, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 2:16pm

MINNEAPOLIS -- From the moment the election was set to determine whether a Target Corp. store would be unionized for the first time, the company got very tough, very fast.

The retail giant hired Jackson Lewis, one of the country's fiercest "union avoidance" law firms, to help keep Target's 1,755-store chain union-free.

Using blunt language on the motives and effectiveness of the organizing union, the company seized on the uncertainty about pay and hours -- the very issues that sparked the union effort -- to raise doubts in workers' minds. You may be unhappy with working conditions, Target told employees at its Valley Stream, N.Y., store, but it could be a lot worse if you accept the overtures of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW).

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E-mail analysis: Wisconsin governor exaggerated early support against unions

SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 10:28pm

MADISON, Wis. -- Seeking a way to counter a growing protest movement, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker cited his e-mail, confidently declaring that most people writing his office had urged him to eliminate nearly all union rights for state workers.

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Bill changes teachers union opt-out

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 11:58pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Teachers who join a union will not have to wait to opt out until the end of a school year.

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(SHARON CEKADA/The Associated Press) A demonstrator sleeps in the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Feb 23. Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to try to find at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats who have been on the run to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees.

Wisconsin governor floats idea of compromise in e-mails

Scott Bauer, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 10:28pm

MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise aimed at ending a nearly three-week standoff with absent Senate Democrats, according to e-mails released Tuesday by his office.

The e-mails, some dated as recently as Sunday, show a softened stance in Walker's talks with the 14 Democrats who fled to Illinois to block a vote on his original proposal that would strip nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers and force concessions amounting to an average 8 percent pay cut.

Under the compromise floated by Walker and detailed in the e-mails, workers would be able to continue bargaining over their salaries with no limit, a change from his original plan that banned negotiated salary increases beyond inflation. He also proposed compromises allowing collective bargaining to stay in place on mandatory overtime, performance bonuses, hazardous duty pay and classroom size for teachers.

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Nationally, Dems say GOP attacking organized labor

Chicago Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 11:49pm

MADISON, Wis. -- Facing widening Republican attacks on organized labor, Democrats struck back Tuesday with legislative walkouts and boisterous rallies across the Midwest to defend one of their core constituencies.

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