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The Republican strategy on Capitol Hill of legislating through hostage taking worked yesterday – and now unions are screwed.  House Republicans demanded that a routine FAA spending bill include harsh anti-union language that makes it harder for transportation workers to organize.  The change raises the threshold for seeking a union from 35% to 50% for transportation workers – and Republican basically said if Democrats don’t agree to it

All 50 Attorneys General across the nation have until today to decide if they’re going to sign on to a settlement with the nation’s biggest banks to let banksters off the criminal hook for widespread fraud committed on Wall Street during the financial crisis.  The settlement – which is against the biggest of the big banks like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo – is worth $25 billion – which is chump change compared to the rea

Our democracy is screwed.  It’s been long speculated that Republican state lawmakers are taking their orders from the shadowy right-wing think tank funded by the Koch Brothers and known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – and now there’s proof.  It was discovered in Florida – when Republican State Representative Rachel Burgin introduced legislation in the state House back in November that - oops - still in

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels took his state backwards on Wednesday – signing legislation to make Indiana the 23^rd “right-to-work” state in the nation.  It’s the first state in ten years to go right-to-work and also the first state in the nation’s manufacturing belt to adopt a right-to-work law, which starves labor unions of much-needed funding.

So what can workers in Indiana expect now?  First off – lower wages.&nbsp