Monthly Archives: August 2010

Obama Apointee Under Ethics Cloud

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is facing his first real test to enforce the most heralded value of President Obama’s Administration—the ethics pledge.

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Shareholders win the battle of the boardroom

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday gave shareholders broad new powers to nominate directors for corporate boards.

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Rep. Boehner Calls On Dems to Abandon EFCA

Speaking on the House floor, Rep. John Boehner asks congressional Democrats to abandon the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Creative Accounting Masked AFL-CIO’s Finances

The AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. union organization, concealed deteriorating finances through “creative accounting,” according to a union leader.

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Union Officer Pension Plans Remain Flush

Pension plans for union officers remain healthy and well-funded even as rising liabilities threaten to consume the savings of their rank and file counterparts who participate in different funds…

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Labor’s ‘priority’ on back burner

Two days after Mr. Obama’s win, AFL-CIO head John Sweeney called the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a long-stalled bill designed to boost a union’s chances of organizing a workplace, the “No. 1 legislative priority” for organized labor.

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Unions to Pool Spending for Midterms

The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union have agreed to coordinate spending millions of dollars in the midterm elections to support pro-union candidates, most of them Democrats.

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Boehner Card Checks Democrats

It’s a favorite bill for Republicans to criticize: the Employee Free Choice Act, with its provision known as “card check”–legislation that would eliminate employers’ ability to demand a secret-ballot election during the union-forming process.

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