Labor News And Notes Round-Up

Explaining the Buffet Rule The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country... Find out how many millionaires pay less in taxes than you do Investigators in the Scott Walker-related 'John Doe'
By Kenneth Quinnell — April 18, 2012

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Explaining the Buffet Rule

The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country...

  • Find out how many millionaires pay less in taxes than you do

  • Investigators in the Scott Walker-related 'John Doe' investigation are afraid to file more charges because they are concerned about being called biased

  • AFL-CIO takes a look at Repbulican attempts to take over the public job training system

  • Take action to stop conservative attacks on the new fair union election rule issued by the National Labor Relations Board

  • Women are still being paid only 77 percent of what men get paid

  • Republican-appointed judges David Sentell and Janice Rogers Brown suggest that effectively all regulation of the economy is unconstitutional

  • AFL-CIO Chair Richard Trumka slams Barack Obama over U.S.-Columbia free trade efforts

  • Progress Missouri does a great expose on ALEC's efforts in the state

  • Organized labor helped Maryland and Washington win marriage equality

  • Richard Kahlenberg on why labor organizing should be a civil right

  • More than two dozen Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes between 2008 and 2010

  • American Federatin of Teachers President Randi Weingarten argues that education reform should be left up to teachers, not political 'reformers'

  • Sean McGarvey was elected the new president of the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department

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