Labor

Airline and Online Lobbying on U.S. "Card Check" Bill

by Diane Farsetta — April 1, 2009 - 10:49am

In the battle over the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would make it easier for workers to join a union, "both the U.S.

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PR Week, March 20, 2009

It's All Just Business to the Chamber

by Diane Farsetta — March 5, 2009 - 3:32pm

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- along with other industry-funded groups, such as the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace -- is fighting the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a bill that would make it easier for employees to join labor unions.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), March 4, 2009

South Korea Seeks the Calming Influence of Spin Doctors

by Bob Burton — February 9, 2009 - 9:42pm

The Korean Ministry of Labour has appointed Fleishman-Hillard (F-H) to "develop a strategic communications campaign to address pressing labour-related issues within the domestic market," reports Media magazine. David Blecken reports that F-H will run a one-year campaign which will "aim to maintain social harmony by building a greater level of understanding between the government, business community, unions, employees and other related interest groups." The South Korean Embassy in Washington D.C.

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Media, February 9, 2009

Berman Huddles with His Bailout Buddies

by Diane Farsetta — January 30, 2009 - 11:04am

"Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with

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Huffington Post, January 27, 2009

Lobbyist's Front Group Joins the Anti-ACORN Bandwagon

by Diane Farsetta — October 30, 2008 - 12:58pm

A full-page ad in the New York Times "accuses ACORN of a list of abuses that suggest hypocrisy on some of the group's signature issues: intimidating and firing its own employees if they try to unionize, misappropriating millions of dollars from taxpayer-funded government grants and advocating minimum wage hides while paying its own employees less than minimum wage." While the ad "does not indicate who or what organization paid for it," it comes from one of lobbyist

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ProPublica, October 29, 2008

Justice, Texas-Style

by Bob Burton — October 2, 2008 - 4:24am

Justice Dale Wainwright, a sitting Republican member of the Texas Supreme Court, is up for election later this year.

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Houston Chronicle, September 28, 2008

Sorry, Whistleblowers, You're on Your Own

by Diane Farsetta — September 4, 2008 - 9:58am

The U.S. Labor Department has only "ruled in favor of [corporate] whistleblowers 17 times out of 1,273 complaints filed since 2002," and has dismissed 841 cases. Many of the dismissals were based "on the technicality that workers at corporate subsidiaries aren't covered" by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), September 4, 2008

Colombia Still Pushing on Trade Agreement

by Diane Farsetta — September 2, 2008 - 3:11pm

The Colombian government will pay U.S. lobbyist Andrew J. Samet another $45,000, "to present Colombia's track record on labor issues to Congress, non-governmental organizations and labor unions." The new contract is similar to Samet's earlier work to push the U.S.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), September 2, 2008
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