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Efforts to Curtail Private-Sector Unions Faltering

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May 13, 2011
"Not content to target only public-sector unions, Republican lawmakers in more than one-quarter of the states this year launched their most ambitious attempt in about generation to break up union shops in factories, offices and other private-sector workplaces."

Pressure On T-Mobile USA Increases Over Worker Harassment

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Washington, D.C. ? May 12, 2011 ? Hundreds of union colleagues in Germany today marched in support of their brothers and sisters at the Communications Workers of America in their effort to offer employees of T-Mobile USA the option of enjoying union representation.

Trade Deals Unite Left and Right in Opposition

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May 12, 2011
Some tea party organizations have been quietly trading notes with left-leaning advocacy groups as both sides work to derail a series of upcoming free-trade agreements. Together, they hope to deliver what one opponent of the deals described as a ?one-two punch? to proposed trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. As liberal groups and labor unions lobby Democrats, tea party members have been calling the Republican freshmen they helped elect.