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A Proposed Law Could Widen the Gap Between Business and Labornew

The proposed Employee Free Choice Act would ease the rules for union organizing. With just 3.5 percent of its workers paying union dues, North Carolina is the least unionized state in the nation and in the crosshairs of the EFCA debate.
INDY Week  |  Bob Geary  |  03-05-2009  |  Business & Labor

How the Nursing Home Industry Got a Guarantee of Huge Profitsnew

Pushing nursing home residents out into the heat for two hours for prefabricated "rallies" was the first step in a carefully orchestrated lobbying blitzkrieg. The result is a bill that changes the way nursing home payments in California are made -- and it could be a budget buster.
SF Weekly  |  Matt Smith  |  08-27-2004  |  Policy Issues

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