Republican lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts that directly shrink union membership.

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen local Kansas City chair Bill Paalhar leads the union's monthly meeting at Argosy Casino in Riverside on Wednesday. The labor union’s president, Edward W. Rodzwicz, was arrested and charged this week after allegedly taking bribes from a St. Louis attorney, who was part of a federal investigation.

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  In the hours after the Missouri Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision on the constitutionality of the 2005 changes to the state’s workers’ compensation law, some surprising press releases started circulating the state. In particular, both the Missouri ...

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A Senate committee on Thursday postponed a vote for Rep. Hilda Solis as President Barack Obama’s labor secretary after her husband settled tax liens this week. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said her nomination wasn’t in trouble even though ...

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