• By: Steve Tisza
• August 29, 2006

He talks like a kid raised on the principles of Local 2201, and maybe that's because Justin Verlander spent countless hours in a stroller on picket lines. His father, Richard, was ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 20, 2006

"Supporters of the administration warn that if we leave now, things will get far worse. That may be. But we are not going to remain in Iraq forever, and there is no reason to think...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 19, 2006

"That seems strange since Ronald Reagan was willing to negotiate with the Soviets even though they were the 'Evil Empire," said retired Lt. General Robert Guard, who served as spec...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 14, 2006

"Unions are increasingly courting immigrant day laborers in hopes of reversing a longtime decline in membership and clout. But labor experts say organizing a work force that is mob...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 9, 2006

"Through the end of 2006, Union Pacific will be hiring a total of 1,750 train service employees in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebra...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 8, 2006

Thank you all for sharing your laughter and your tears. I will truly miss you. To celebrate our ?Family of Operators? I have reserved a picnic area (shelter area #2...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 8, 2006

"So there was Hillary Rodham Clinton grandstanding for the television cameras last week, giving Donald Rumsfeld a carefully scripted chewing out for his role in the Bush administra...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 7, 2006

"A cold hard assessment that Iraq is not going to turn out the way we were promised it was and, that's a fact," said Hagel, interviewed on the CBS show "Face the Nation." "This is ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 4, 2006

When AT&T announced in late June their plan to close it?s Global Markets Customer Care Centers in Oakbrook and Chicago, IL, 137 members of IBEW Local 21 immediately faced the disti...

• By: Steve Tisza
• August 1, 2006

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