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ALEC's Plan to Kill Union Jobs Everywhere, Even Outside the U.S.

by PRW Staff — February 27, 2013 - 8:30am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Economy, Labor, Politics, Real Economy Project

    • by Dave Saldana

    In Ontario, 465 union workers used to make locomotive engines. Then Indiana passed ALEC's anti-union legislation, and Caterpillar moved the works to Muncie. And that's bad for everybody.

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    Exposed: Whole Foods' and the Biggest Organic Foods Distributor's Troubled Relationships with Workers

    by PRW Staff — February 5, 2013 - 8:19am
  • Topics: Corporations, Food, Food Rights Network, Labor

    • - by Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association and Dave Murphy of Food Democracy Now!

    The union is like having herpes. It doesn't kill you, but it's unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover. --John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market

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    ALEC-Inspired "Right to Work" Bill Back Again in Pennsylvania

    by Brendan Fischer — January 31, 2013 - 9:17am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Labor

    • Will the Keystone State follow Michigan and attempt to bust the state's unions with help from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its allies?

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    FreedomWorks Putting Its War Chest to Work for ALEC’s Anti-Union Agenda in the States

    by Brendan Fischer — January 14, 2013 - 8:57am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Democracy, Labor, Politics

    • The Tea Party-affiliated group FreedomWorks -- the right-wing organization that helps connect "Tea Party" groups with talking points, rallies, and more -- is gearing up to direct its sizeable war chest towards advancing anti-union initiatives in the states, supporting an agenda set by groups like David Koch's Americans for Prosperity and the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This strongly suggests that the battle for the future of private and public sector unions in America is beginning a new phase of combat.

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    Gov. Walker Trusts Teachers with Guns, But Not With Collective Bargaining

    by Brendan Fischer — December 21, 2012 - 9:22am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Education, Labor, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who became nationally known for severely limiting the union rights of teachers and other public employees, has indicated support for arming those same school officials who apparently cannot be trusted to collectively bargain.

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    Michigan Passes "Right to Work" Containing Verbatim Language from ALEC Model Bill

    by Brendan Fischer — December 11, 2012 - 1:38pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Labor, Politics

    • Amidst massive pro-labor protests, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed sweeping legislation attacking private and public sector unions, just hours after passing the lame-duck legislature. The operative language in the bills is nearly identical to the American Legislative Exchange Council's "model" Right to Work Act.

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    ALEC's So-Called "Right to Work" Bill as Political Revenge in Michigan

    by Lisa Graves — December 11, 2012 - 8:00am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Labor, Politics

    • As concerned workers come together across Michigan in protest, partisan politicians are poised to make one of the strongholds for America's blue-collar worker rights into a so-called "Right to Work" (RTW) state -- in accordance with the ALEC blueprint to change to state laws at the behest of some of the biggest corporations in the world. Yet, 42 corporations, including General Motors, have distanced themselves from ALEC this year after ALEC's role in controversial and divisive legislation was exposed.

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    Web of Berman Front Groups Subject of IRS Complaint

    by Rebekah Wilce — November 30, 2012 - 8:13am
  • Topics: Front Groups, Labor, Lobbying

    • Five registered non-profits run by super-lobbyist Rick Berman's for-profit PR firm, Berman & Co., are the target of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) complaint filed this month by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

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    Public Citizen's Analysis: Candidates Nationwide Used Trade-Themed Ads to Appeal to U.S. Majority Opposing Trade Status Quo

    by PRW Staff — November 7, 2012 - 3:21pm
  • Topics: Election 2012, Democracy, Labor, Real Economy Project

    • Presidential Candidates Ran Three Times as Many Trade-Related Ads as in 2008; 30 States' Congressional Race Ads Featured Criticism of Trade Status Quo; Composition of the Senate Shifts in Favor of Fair Trade

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    "Bainport" Workers Protest Vulture Capitalism; Ask Romney to Stop Sensata from Outsourcing Their Jobs to China

    by Harriet Rowan — November 2, 2012 - 8:52am
  • Topics: Corporations, Labor

    • Late in the evening on Halloween about 100 people gather around the campfire in "Bainport," Illinois, marking the 50th day of the encampment. People gather close to warm up as they help each other put on hand-made vulture masks and prepare for an evening rally. Out of the dark comes a procession of Sensata workers, holding letters from the Wisconsin "Overpass Light Brigade" that spell out "Vulture in Chief." Leading the procession is a puppet of Mitt Romney flanked by two huge vultures. They walk past the campfire as their families and supporters join the march in their vulture masks, slowly crossing the road to the parking lot of the Sensata plant, to take a picture of their message in front of their soon-to-be-former place of employment.

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