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Federal Labor Board Rules for Sheraton Anchorage Hotel Union
Channel 2 NewsThe National Labor Relations Board has largely sided with union workers at a Downtown Anchorage hotel in a long-running labor dispute, ordering its Texas-based management company to implement a series of reforms. According to a 74-page Wednesday...Tags: Unions, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Death and Dying Customs
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City Again Refuses Referendum to Overturn Labor Law Rewrite
Channel 2 NewsThe Municipality of Anchorage has again rejected a petition to place a referendum repealing Mayor Dan Sullivan’s controversial labor ordinance on the city ballot, naming some of the same causes from its first refusal two weeks ago. In a Monday...Tags: Local Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Laws, Politics
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City Rejects Petition to Repeal Assembly Labor Ordinance
Channel 2 NewsA petition asking voters to repeal Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan’s controversial rewrite of the city’s labor laws has been rejected by city officials, who say it won’t appear on the municipal ballot because it was improperly worded and...Tags: Interior Policy, Civil and Public Service, Laws, Government, Local Government
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Former Union Official Convicted of Forgery
Channel 2 NewsA former union organizer with the Alaska State Employees Association was convicted of forgery Monday in Anchorage court. 32-year-old Skye McRoberts submitted hundreds of forged signatures in 2010 to the Alaska Labor Relations Agency in support of her...Tags: Career and Workplace, Work Relations
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Alaska Supreme Court Weighs in on Union Communications
Becky BohrerThe Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that communications between unions and their members in labor disputes and grievances are confidential. The finding of "union-relations privilege" comes in a case brought against the state by Russell Peterson Jr. ...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace
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Anchorage Assembly Votes Down Utility Workers' Contract
Channel 2 NewsIn a 7-4 vote Tuesday night, the Anchorage Assembly did not approve a union contract for AWWU employees. The contract was arrived at by a mutually-agreed-upon arbitrator, and required an eight-vote super majority on the assembly to pass. Assemblymen...Tags: Strikes, Unions, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Contracts
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AWWU Union Authorizes Friday Strike
The Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility union's attorney says its members will go on strike at 10 a.m. Friday. Members authorized the strike Wednesday night on a 113-2 vote after the Anchorage Assembly failed to approve a union contract for AWWU...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace, Lawyers, Employees, Collective Contract
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Judge Blocks Friday AWWU Union Strike
KTUU.comThe Municipality of Anchorage has obtained a preliminary injunction barring employees with the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility’s union from going on strike Friday at 10 a.m. as planned. Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner’s Thursday...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace, Lawyers, Court Preliminary, Trials
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Second appeals court finds Obama recess appointment is unconstitutional
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board. The ruling by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals...Tags: Lamar Alexander, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Republican Party, U.S. Senate
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Chicago sports — all the darn time
It's spring and the Hawks, Bulls (at least at this writing), Cubs, Sox and Fire are all playing. Two traditionally winter sports and three spring/summer/fall sports are involved in nonstop action on a daily basis. And, it's mid-May for goodness sake....
Tags: Ice Hockey, Colorado Rockies, Sports, Chicago Bulls, Baseball
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Nuking the filibuster
In requiring the U.S. Senate to confirm presidential appointments, the Constitution aims to ensure a second level of scrutiny of the qualifications of government officials. But Senate Republicans have hijacked the confirmation process, not only to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Work Relations, Crime, Law and Justice
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Edgar Allan Jones Jr. dies at 92; law professor played judge on TV courtroom shows
The TV career of Edgar Allan Jones Jr. began with a phone call in early 1958 from a producer who needed to cast someone knowledgeable about the law. Although Jones taught law full time at UCLA, he was nervous at the prospect of auditioning: His only...
Tags: Laws, Entertainment, New York City, University of California, Los Angeles, Television
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