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An important decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may significantly impact withdrawal liability assessments.

This chapter in Stan Weir's Singlejack Solidarity tells the history of how, from the victory in the 1934 General Strike through the first Mechanization & Modernization (M&M) Agreement in 1961, longshore workers in San Francisco had 27 years of near-total control of the labor process on the waterfront in the "largest, longest, and most successful formal experiment in workers' control ever conducted in the United States."

The unions are collaborating to keep contract struggles by Kaiser employees isolated and to prevent a united stoppage, as 24,000 nurses join the engineers in authorizing strike action.

He was in. but also, he came to the training center of the operating engineers. and as you know, the building trades unions are really supportive of the bipartisan infrastructure program. so, he came right to them and said hey, lets do both. because the build back better agenda has so much for you, to. 82 billion dollars of school construction spending and making the rules at the pro act right into the build back better act, so that employers who violate workers rights get penalize. so, that was...

Snowplow drivers, park maintenance workers and others could go on strike as soon as Oct. 19.

The use of the “Segal Blend” to calculate a company’s withdrawal liability when it withdrew from a multiemployer pension plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

The 244-unit co-op is home to seniors and vulnerable residents on fixed incomes — who worry their residence will be converted into market rental housing.

Biden also makes a threatening "joke" to the media.

President Joe Biden floated the idea on Tuesday of using a one-time change to Senate rules to prevent a Republican filibuster in order to suspend the debt limit.

The Trump rule allowed agencies to ignore climate change when reviewing infrastructure projects and cut the public out of the process.