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June 7, 2010: 'Card Check' Dead, but Union Efforts Not
Businesses objected to measure, but NLRB still could favor organizing
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May 26, 2010: The Next Bailout - $165B for Unions
Taxpayers could be on the hook for another $165 billion if a bill to bail out private union pension funds makes it through Congress.
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April 19, 2010: Big Dem Majorities in Congress in Doubt as AFL-CIO Meets
With congressional Democrats facing losses in November, labor strategists view the remaining months of this year as the best chance they'll have to have their priorities enacted.
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April 8, 2010: Dem-Packed NLRB May Rush Through Pro-Union Rulings
After years of inactivity, the National Labor Relations Board is set to come roaring back. And everyone expects it to give Big Labor a new edge in its dealings with management.
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Mar 24, 2010: Business Groups Urge Obama Against Naming Becker to Labor Board
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce led 20 business lobbying groups in urging President Barack Obama not to use his executive power to appoint union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.
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Mar 18, 2010: Obama Administration Pushing its Labor Agenda - EFCA or No EFCA
'Things are not necessarily pro-union, but they're pro-worker,' observes Robert Trumble, professor, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Mar 15, 2010: Unions Taking on Dems Who Don't Toe Labor Line
Frustrated at seeing their legislative agenda stymied, unions are becoming increasingly active in competitive Democratic Senate primaries.
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Mar 11, 2010: There was Card Check, Now it's Forced Unionism from the National Mediation Board
Big Labor is covering its bets against the likelihood that President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress won't be able to deliver Card Check to kill the secret ballot in workplace representation elections. The sidebet is at the three-member National Mediation Board.
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Mar 9, 2010: Business Leaders Swarm Hill to Fight Card Check
Executives and owners representing thousands of small and medium-size businesses from eight states flooded Capitol Hill yesterday with one message for their senators -- don't even think about trying to revive the supposedly dead Employee Free Choice Act.
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Mar 3, 2010: Halter Calls for 'Compromise' on Card Check
As unions pledged millions to help his primary challenge, Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) offered a muddled endorsement of a key labor bill.