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Nothing could be less controversial than having schoolchildren learn a passage from the Declaration of Independence, right? Guess again. Because a recently proposed Louisiana bill requiring just that was shelved last week after a lawmaker implied it was racist and characterized it as a “lie.” Breitbart reports on the story, writing that state Representative Barbara Norton (D; shown) "led the charge against HB 1035, a measure that would require local school boards of education to have students in grades four to six recite a specified section of the Declaration of Independence after the current daily period of silent prayer...

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY'Right to work' hearing on rally day PROPOSALS ON ORGANIZED LABOR LIKELY TO BE KILLED By Ryan Alessi And John Stamper HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU FRANKFORT --

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We need the Secret Ballot Protection Act now! H.R. 874 S.1173 Join us in our fight against this union tyranny! http://www.freeworkplace.org Hoffa Statement on SEIU Card-Check Victory for Houston Janitors WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is an official statement of James P. Hoffa, Teamsters General President: On behalf of the entire Teamster membership, I want to personally congratulate SEIU and the 5,000 Houston janitors on their recent card-check majority at ABM Industries. This victory will not only bring a tidal shift of economic security and dignity to Houston's low-wage workforce, it sends a message to workers across the...

But not everyone in New Haven is happy about the Cancer Center. For the past seven years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest unions to drop out of the AFL-CIO this summer, has been trying to force YNHH workers to join. They have managed to get most of the city's politicians, labor leaders and religious figures behind them in holding up construction until the hospital agrees to their plans of compulsory and monopolistic unionization.

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(11/05/02) -- On Monday, the Teamsters union vowed they would shut down two Rolling Stones concerts this weekend at Pacific Bell Park (Home of San Francisco Giants) if the promoter, Clear Channel Communications, does not use union workers. William Cromartie, the president of the Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 85, said that the Teamsters have had a gripe with Clear Channel for years: "They want to bring in kids to work for $6 or $7 an hour and give then a T-shirt." Nearly 50 Teamsters were picketing outside the stadium as trailers arrived to deliver equipment for the Friday and Saturday...