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Florida Restaurant Charging Customers For Obamacare Costs That Don’t Exist Yet

A Florida sports bar is now serving its burgers and wings with a side of political controversy, and diners aren’t feeling it. Eight locations of Gator’s Dockside, a popular central Florida sports bar chain, have started tacking on 1 percent “ACA Surcharge” to customers’ bills, CNN Moneyreported Thursday. The Gator Group, which runs the eight locations, […]

Krugman: Obama’s big trade deal shows he’s “weirdly out of touch”

The Obama administration is having a very difficult time convincing Democrats in Congress to support its big trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And with his latest column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman just made the job a little bit harder. While the award-winning economist and best-selling author’s newest isn’t a complete assault on the TPP, it’s not […]

Bob Corker: I Am ‘Public Enemy Number One Of The UAW’

WASHINGTON — The United Auto Workers union may feel that Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) interfered in its election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this month, but on Thursday the Tennessee senator argued that he had every right to make his controversial statements as workers were casting their votes. “Do I think that public officials […]

Supreme Court considers striking down mandatory public union dues

WASHINGTON– Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether teachers and other public employees can be required to pay dues to support a union even if some of them oppose it. Since 1977, the high court has upheld such mandatory union fees, but some justices suggested that they were open to changing course and striking down such […]

Stewards at Palmdale and Sunnyvale Prepare for Negotiations with Lockheed

Stewards Training on December 4, 2013 for Lockheed Palmdale and Lockheed Sunnyvale on January 9, 2014, instructed stewards on the vital role they play in negotiations and how critical they are in making the upcoming Lockheed negotiations a success. “The Union Steward is the most important position in a Union,” said IAM Western Territory General […]

Amazon Workers Vow to Continue Union Drive

A union election among 30 Maintenance Technicians at the Amazon warehouse in Middletown, DE may have fallen short of the majority needed, but workers there understand a successful organizing campaign often requires several election cycles before representation is achieved. The 21-to-6 vote was overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and represented the first […]