 5.9.12
On May 8th, the Ohio AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council held its first lobby day at the Ohio Statehouse. Veterans made the trip to the Capitol from all over Ohio to lobby their legislators on issues important to veterans and their families. Read more.
5.9.12
President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some optimism over the U.S. economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released yesterday showed. Read more.
5.8.12
Ohio lawmakers on Tuesday (almost) repealed a controversial election bill that was supposed to go before voters on Nov. 6 -- the first known case in Ohio history in which legislators repealed a bill up for referendum. Read more.
5.3.12
Sen. Sherrod Brown says Wall Street oil speculation is partly to blame and recently called for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to intervene. Read more.
5.2.12
A group of nine female state lawmakers have signed a letter to Josh Mandel’s U.S. Senate campaign to express “extreme disappointment” in Mandel’s refusal to support the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act that passed in the Senate last week. Read more.
4.25.12
Many local students and college leaders hope Obama succeeds in his efforts to pressure lawmakers into extending a 2007 law that cut interest rates on a popular federal loan program for poor to middle-class students. Read more.
4.25.12
The legislation, they contend, is not a “clean” repeal because it would not rescind a related law — House Bill 224 — passed later that, like House Bill 194, bars early in-person voting on the weekend and Monday before Election Day. Read more.
4.23.12
A decision to cut the interest rate that thousands of Ohio police officers and firefighters earn on their retirement accounts isn’t sitting well with some, despite contentions that the payout is too expensive. Read more.
4.22.12
"Despite public comments about collaboration, House Republicans have introduced several bills that would drastically impair the rights of Ohio workers who are injured on the job without consulting the organizations that represent workers," Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga said. Read more.
4.21.12
A record number of workers are suing their employers for allegedly not paying proper wages, and the spike in litigation has been commended by labor-advocacy groups and criticized by business groups. Read more.
4.16.12
Recent public opinion polls show that only about 12 percent of Americans approve of the job performance of congress. Our state legislature doesn't fare much better. We elected these folks. So, why is there such a disconnect? Read more.
4.14.12
The antics of State Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Lyndhurst Republican, continue to set precedents in the annals of Ohio political hypocrisy, which, given Ohio's history, is really saying something. Read more.
4.12.12
In an event at the Washington headquarters of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., organizers are scheduled to unveil a new Web site, workersvoice.org, along with ambitious plans to energize union and nonunion workers to participate in the presidential and Congressional elections. Read more.
4.11.12
Labor activists point to Foxconn's record in Brazil to show that it and Apple can make products under lawful conditions while paying workers decent wages when the local environment requires it. And they believe that Apple and Foxconn have been taking advantage of Chinese workers simply because they believe they can get away with it. Read more.
4.11.12
Working Americans scored a big victory last week when four corporations withdrew their membership from a secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. Read more.
4.5.12
The Cleveland Teachers Union and Mayor Frank Jackson met for more than seven hours in a last-minute negotiation session Wednesday night trying to reach agreement on the last two disputed points in Jackson’s school improvement plan. Read more.
4.5.12
Construction unions are fuming that nonunion and out-of-town workers are building the $50 million Campus Village project at Cleveland State University. Read more.
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