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Massachusetts Public Employee Unions Poised to Reduce Negative Impact of Legislative Changes to Municipal Healthcare Bargaining Laws 07/08/2011

Less than ten days after Massachusetts legislators passed a measure that reduced collective bargaining rights and enabled municipalities to shift a greater share of healthcare costs to public employees, it appears that a coalition of public employee unions have convinced Governor Patrick to make

Massachusetts Public Employee Unions Poised to Reduce Negative Impact of Legislative Changes to Municipal Healthcare Bargaining Laws 07/08/2011

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Granite State Lawmakers Remain Rock-Solid Against Right-to-Work 06/28/2011

Proponents of union-busting Right to Work legislation were dealt another defeat this week when New Hampshire Republican House Speaker William O’Brien announced he would continue to run from an override vote that would have killed the latest attempt to implement the legislation in the Granite Stat

Granite State Lawmakers Remain Rock-Solid Against Right-to-Work 06/28/2011

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Chelmsford, MA School Committee Votes to Privatize School Custodians - Private Vendor Offers Veteran Employees Minimum Wage 06/26/2011

Members of the Chelmsford, MA School Committee recently voted to outsource the jobs of 24 AFSCME school custodians, leaving the long-serving public employees two choices – unemployment or a 60% cut in pay working for the for-profit company that duped the naïve committee members into signing the a

Chelmsford, MA School Committee Votes to Privatize School Custodians - Private Vendor Offers Veteran Employees Minimum Wage 06/26/2011