Union Labor News: Issues from 2011
All ULN issues and articles in 2011 are listed below. Click the month heading to be brought to another listing of that month's articles with summaries. Alternatively, click the headlines themselves to be brought directly to that article.
December
- State Workers Taste Life without a Union Contract
- Ask Al: New Research Reveals Labor Temple Bar Best Place to Get a Working Class Buzz
- Area Unions Have Had Four Labor Temples Since 1893
- UW Student Labor Action Coalition Changes the Sweatshops of the World
- Let’s Not Celebrate Ohio Vote Too Soon
- UW ‘Efficiency’ Project Promises Budget Cuts And Maybe Cuts in Jobs & Accountability Too
- Congressional ‘Super Committee’ Poised To Make Big Indirect Cut to Social Security
- New Way of Calculating Poverty Shows More Poor Older Americans
- New Progressive Talk Show Comes to Madison Area
- Largest Corporations in Wisconsin Pay No Taxes While Exec Pay and Profits Soar, Jobs Disappear
November
- Labor and School Officials Join Forces To Demand Passage of Federal Jobs Act
- Profitable Wisconsin Company Finally Admits To Using ‘Extreme Tax Avoidance Techniques’
- Wisconsin Runaway Shop Exposes Fraud of Business ‘Uncertainty’ Claim
- Occupy Wall Street is Helping to Bust Economic Myths
- We Have A Voice Thanks to Labor Radio & WIN
- Obama Signs ‘God-Awful’ Free Trade Bills
- You Receive Prestigious Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
- Postal Service Union Proposes Reasonable Alternatives to Unreasonable Mandates
- Unions Hit Privatization at UW ‘Red Tie Gala’
- Report: Teachers Can Counter Labor History Distortions In School Textbooks
October
- Retiring President’s Advice: Trust the Members
- New Cuts Spur State Workers’ Organizing Lowest-Paid Hardest Hit
- Recall Walker...Now!
- If Judge Prosser Was A Groundskeeper He Would Have Been Fired by Now
- Local Activists Discuss Reviving Effective Strikes
- Labor Builds Solidarity with Washington ILWU As Company Uses Laws, Scabs to Bust Union
- New Alliance Demands ‘Housing As A Human Right’ While Legislative Landlords Cut Low-income Programs
- Immigrant Workers’ Union: What Can a Union Be?
September
- Verizon Workers Strike Against ‘Wisconsin-style Tactics’
- Madison Teachers March on DC To Save Quality Public Schools
- Massive Recall Effort Sets Stage for Fight to Come
- Building Trades Making Ready for the Future
- Corporate America Sits on Piles of Cash That Could Be Used to Create New Jobs
- How Federal Budget-Cutters Plan to Stick It to Poor Old Folks on Social Security
- New Project Aims to Organize the Unorganized in South Central WI
- Rally Wishes Medicare A Happy 46th Birthday And Warns of Rep. Paul Ryan’s Plan to Do It In
- Protest Hits Walker’s Sweatshop Jobs in Fort Atkinson
- Do Unions Really Protect Incompetent Workers?
August
- Area Teachers Hop a Bus to Washington To Defend Quality Education for All
- Why ‘Wisconsin Uprsing’ Happened in Wisconsin
- Workshop Plots Direct Workplace Action To Combat Walker’s War on Workers
- June Training Reveals Potential for Turning ‘Wisconsin Uprising’ into Organizing Drives
- Report: Don’t Praise or Blame Walker for Unemployment Blame Him Instead for Reduced Quality of Jobs that Remain
- NLRB Proposal to Speed Up Union Elections Prompts Local Debate
- Corporate Wisconsin Legally Avoids Paying Taxes While Working Wisconsin Picks Up Their Slack
- Slow Pace of Negotiations Puts Overture in Jeopardy
- AFGE’s Long Struggle to Represent Airport Screeners May Hold Lessons for Wisconsin Public Employees
- How Firefighters Respond to the Alarm In Attack on Wisconsin Workers’ Rights
July
- ‘Walkerville Citizens’ Continue Protest of Governor’s Assault on the Working Class
- ‘Walkerville Citizens’ Holding Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Accountable
- Wisconsin Unions Reinventing Themselves In Wake of Gov. Walker’s War on Workers
- Latest in Walker’s War on Workers and Some Lessons from the Road Not Taken
- Arlo Guthrie Coming to Madison July 14 To Benefit Struggle of Wisconsin Workers
- AFSCME Born Fighting to Save Wisconsin Civil Service
- Report: 10 Years of Bush-era Tax Cuts, Expensive, Ineffective & Unfair
- White House Proposal to Exempt Employers from Paying For Social Security Would Hurt Workers
- Registration Open Now for Young Workers Summit
- ITUC Survey: Unions Faced Growing Violence Around the Globe in 2010
- Paulette Feld Elected New President AFSCME Council 24
June
- State AFL-CIO Rally: The Fight’s Not Over
- Why Don’t Republicans Just Re-Pass Repeal of Collective Bargaining Rights?
- National AFL-CIO On Board with Push For New Single-Payer Health Care Bill
- Local Building Trades Council Recognized For Community Service on Capitol Square
- We Must Not Squander Opportunity, Anger
- Report: Public Employees Not the Problem, Attacks on Public Employees Not the Solution
- Media Ignores ‘Values-based’ Budget
- Lowest-paid Workers Set to Take Biggest Hit in Governor Walker’s Public Employee Cuts
- UW-Green Bay Faculty Latest to Vote in Union In Response to Attacks on University System
- Wisconsin Labor Stands with Dockworkers Under Attack for April 4 Solidarity Strike
- Gathering On Capitol Steps Celebrates ‘State Employee De-preciation Day’
May
- Hope and Strikes on April 4 Pose Question: ‘Which Way Forward for Wisconsin Workers?’
- Latest Walker, Ryan Flim Flams Revealed
- Wisconsin Pensions in Great Shape Despite Attacks
- One Correctional Officer On Reverend Jesse Jackson
- Gov. Walker Creating Jobs, Jobs, Jobs On and Around State Capitol Square
- High School Students Report Protests Made for a ‘Life-changing Experience’
- Masar Gets ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from Labor History Society
- Madison Labor History Mural Finished But Can Never Actually be Completed
- Celebrating 125 Years of May Day Different Times, Same Problems
- Celebrado 125 Años de Primero de Mayo Distintos Años, Los Mismos Problemas
- Jimmy Higgins Tells Us Some of His Life and Times in the Labor Movement
- Madison ‘Troublemakers School’ Edgy Success
April
- Walker Awakens a Sleeping Giant
- Does Scott Walker Have God’s Private Number?
- Wisconsin Workers Enlisting in New Class War
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: ‘There Is No Stopping Point Short of Victory’
- Walker Budget: Cuts for Working Families, Tax Cuts for the Rich
- Despite Walker’s Best Efforts State Employee Unions Not Dead in Wisconsin
- Palm Trees in Madison and Other Media Lies
- General Strikes Challenge Power... and Win
- Michael Moore at Capitol: America Ain’t Broke!
- Knowledgeable, Experienced Workforce a Casualty of Walker's War
March
- Working Class Responds to Walker's War with Awesome Power
- Cuts to Public Employee Compensation Hurt State Economy
- What the Walker Bill Really Says
- A History Lesson for Walker: You Can’t Govern with Bayonets
- New UW Project Promotes Labor & Working Class Studies
- Walker to Curb Fat State Raises?
- Media Repeats Walker’s Lies
- Union Negotiations with Newly-Privatized Overture Center Off to Slow, Ominous Start
- Wisconsin May Soon Require Official ID to Cut Down on Voting
- In Speech to Chamber, Obama Gets it Wrong on Trade, Jobs
- Private Sector Unions Get It: We’re All in This Together
February
- Gimmicks, Dumb Ideas Top State’s Political Agenda
- Walker’s Plan to Privatize Department of Commerce: A Problematic Solution to a Nonexistent Problem
- AFL-CIO President Trumka Hopes for Obama Call to Action
- Citizen Action Getting Good People Together
- Plan for ‘Market-Based’ University of Wisconsin Bad for Students, Taxpayers and the Working Class
- Vote to Privatize Overture Center a Loss to the Community
- Labor Troubadour Anne Feeney On Road to Recovery, More Hell Raising
- Special Interests and Secret Sources Spent $19 Million to Influence Last State Election
- Not Just 250,000 Jobs But 250,000 Union Jobs
- Getting Some Facts Straight about Public Employee Pensions
January
- Politicians Chart Course in Race to the Bottom
- State Employees Demand Contract Approval
- Contrary to Gov.-Elect Walker’s View, Real Facts About State Employees
- What Scott Walker Can, Can’t & Might Do To Unionized State Employees
- Solidarity Is Essential, Now More than Ever
- Wisconsin Labor History Society Brings History to Life
- April 2 ‘Troublemakers' School Prepares for Assault on Labor
- Here's a Tax Break for Working Class Families