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Decades after King's death, Memphis jobs at risk

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — They rode the streets of Memphis in creaky, dangerous garbage trucks, picking up trash from home after home, toiling for a sanitation department that treated them with indifference bordering on disdain. In 1968 those workers took to the streets, marching with civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to demand better working conditions, higher pay and union protection.

By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press , April 03, 2013

Irish unions lead marches to protest austerity

Trade unionists marched in Ireland's capital Saturday to protest the continuing high cost of the country's crippling bank bailout program.

February 09, 2013

Court upholds Wisconsin limits on collective bargaining

A federal appeals court Friday upheld a controversial Wisconsin law that limits public workers’ collective bargaining rights.

By Forum News Service , January 18, 2013

CenturyLink, union fail to reach labor agreement

DENVER (AP) — CenturyLink and the union representing 13,000 workers in 13 states in the West and Midwest have failed to reach a contract agreement, but have signed onto a day-to-day extension of the expired pact.

By Associated Press , October 08, 2012

Teacher strike poses big test for unions

WASHINGTON — The massive teachers’ strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation’s teachers’ unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing reform movement seeks to improve ailing public schools.

By Sam Hananel, Associated Press , September 12, 2012

AFL-CIO lends power to Crystal union members

AFL-CIO lends power to Crystal union members ST. PAUL — The 12 million member AFL-CIO labor federation is putting its muscle, and money, into the nearly year-long American Crystal Sugar Co. lockout.

By Don Davis, Forum Communications , July 26, 2012

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Union members reject Crystal contract

Members of the Bakery Workers union in the Red River Valley rejected a contract offered by American Crystal Sugar. Co. for the third time on Saturday, the union said.

By Chris Bieri, Forum Communications , June 25, 2012

Crystal union lobbies for compromise

American Crystal Sugar union leaders say they’re willing to give on some key sticking points when they sit down for talks with company management next week, but need a similar attitude from the other side of the negotiating table to make progress toward ending the 10-month-old lockout.

By By Marino Eccher , Forum Communications Co. , May 31, 2012

Crystal officials deny unions cost claims

American Crystal Sugar Co. officials deny new union claims that a labor lockout has more than doubled processing costs for beets harvested in 2011.

By By Mikkel Pates , Forum Communications , April 27, 2012

In Midwest, GOP shrinks from union battles

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Fifteen months after taking control of Minnesota's Legislature, Republicans have put a gay marriage ban on this November's ballot, moved to expand gun rights and cast dozens of votes to cut state spending. But there's one issue where they failed to get traction: watering down the strength of organized labor with a right-to-work law.

By Patrick Condon, Associated Press , April 06, 2012

Some daycare providers fear unionizing

Becky Swanson says she fears that she will lose her voice with state officials if fellow daycare providers vote to unionize. If a majority of 4,300 Minnesota in-home day-care providers vote to join unions, Swanson said, the unions probably would take over all negotiations.

By By Don Davis, Forum Communications Co. , November 29, 2011

Chrysler, UAW agree on new contract

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Chrysler and the United Auto Workers union have finally agreed on a new contract.

By Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writers , October 12, 2011

Union seeks to resume negotiations

The union representing 1,300 locked out American Crystal Sugar Co. workers plans to contact the federal mediator assigned to the case this week to request a negotiating session with company management in an attempt to end a lockout that has stretched on for more than 70 days.

By By Ryan Schuster, Forum Communications Co. , October 11, 2011

President of North Dakota AFL-CIO stepping down

A longtime labor leader in North Dakota is stepping down.

October 07, 2011

Unions, students join protesters

Unions lent their muscle to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality Wednesday, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march as smaller demonstrations flourished across the country.

October 06, 2011

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