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  • SEIU Fights To Force Home Caregivers To Pay Union Dues

    01/23/2014 11:09:30 AM PST · by raptor22 · 35 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 23, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS
    Labor Law: The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that will determine if a Medicaid recipient caring for her child is a state worker required to turn part of her meager resources over to union bosses. Illinois resident Pam Harris is a 55-year-old mom earning less than the minimum wage who cares for her son Josh Harris, 25. He has Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, a muscular degenerative disease, compounded by physical disabilities and mental illness. Josh and his family qualify for an Illinois home-based support-services program that lets disabled adults live at home. He gets $721 each month from...
  • SEIU Local 1000 deal underscores pressure on labor

    10/08/2010 8:14:45 AM PDT · by SmithL · 3 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 10/8/10 | Jon Ortiz
    The new labor deal between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's biggest state employee union marks a significant turn in the state's labor drama – and not just because it affects about half the state's unionized work force. Wednesday's near-midnight announcement of a tentative pact with Local 1000 of Service Employees International Union underscored the mounting pressure on labor to cut deals now or risk greater losses. Even Democratic legislators, usually labor allies, appeared poised Thursday to close California's $19 billion budget gap with legislation allowing furloughs for state workers whose unions don't agree to contract concessions. Meanwhile, SEIU's new deal...
  • BREAKING: FBI Raids Toyota Suppliers

    02/24/2010 12:38:07 PM PST · by Kieri · 512 replies · 15,502+ views
    WXYZ ^ | 02/24/10 | Editors
    (WXYZ) - The FBI is confirming raids at the offices of three Michigan auto suppliers who do work for Toyota. Search warrants were served Tuesday evening at Yazaki North America, DENSO International and Tokai Rika. Yazaki sells electronic components and DENSO makes accelerator pedals. Denso has released the following statement about the situation "DENSO International America, Inc. (DIAM), U.S. subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, was inspected on February 23, 2010 by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice in regard to U.S. antitrust laws. DIAM is cooperating with this investigation." Stay with Action News and WXYZ.com...
  • Protesters in Chicago March on Offices of Goldman, Wells Fargo

    10/26/2009 12:22:54 PM PDT · by GOP_Lady · 22 replies · 966+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 10-26-09 | LAUREN ETTER
    Hundreds of union members and organizers descended on the streets of downtown Chicago Monday morning to picket the offices of Goldman Sachs Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. The group, which included supporters from community group National People's Action and the Service Employees International Union, has organized the protests to coincide with the annual meeting of the American Bankers Association. The group is demanding that "banks end their over-reliance on greed and profits and commit to using their taxpayer bailouts and backstops to help America's economy recover," said a news release from the Service Employees International Union.