On Tuesday June 5, 2012 the labor movement suffered a blow when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won his recall election. Gov. Walker is the first governor in US history to survive a recall election. The recall election was the contentious result of Gov. Walker’s signing into law a bill that stripped away the collective bargaining … Continue reading
This week President Obama gave a fiery speech to United Auto Workers about protecting unionism. In what appeared to be a campaign-style speech, Obama spoke in partisan terms, saying, quite passionately, that “I’ll promise you this: as long as you’ve got an ounce of fight left in you, I’ll have a ton of fight left … Continue reading
