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Federal labor board finds sandwich maker illegally threatened and fired employees backing union

By | 11.10.11 | 9:01 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Wednesday finding that Twin Cities Jimmy John’s owned by MikLin Enterprises unlawfully threatened, disciplined and terminated workers for engaging in union activities.

The complaint about the sandwich shop stems from a March incident where six supporters of the International Workers of the More…

RNC Wants Union Members To Have More Rights Than RNC Members

By | 03.20.09 | 2:20 pm

Here’s an interesting tip I just got from American Rights At Work about the Republican’s vociferous opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, based on its oft-stated desire to protect employees’ rights to vote in secret ballots. (Contrary to Republican claims, the EFCA does not take away that More…

Economist: One in Five Union Organizers Gets Canned

By | 01.14.09 | 10:01 am

One in five union activists gets illegally fired in the run-up to unionization elections, economist Dean Baker said at an event held at the National Press Club, Tuesday. Baker’s estimate is based on data compiled by the National Labor Relations Board and analyzed by Baker’s colleagues at the Center for More…

Obama’s Own ‘Rendezvous With Destiny’

By | 11.27.08 | 6:00 am

President-elect Barack Obama is confronting a cascading economic crisis, which seems to worsen by the day, not the week. As venerable banking houses collapse, once-mighty industries teeter on the brink of oblivion and unemployment mounts, the air thickens with recollections of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and comparisons between More…