Companies,labor unions and other organizations may now spend as they wish on independent efforts to elect or defeat candidates.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Mother Jones believed that unions represented the best hope for coal miners and other workers to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Wisconsin's newly elected governor, Scott Walker, says limits are needed on labor unions to help cut a deficit in the state budget.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

But another law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act of Nineteen Thirty-Five, helped labor unions to increase their power.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

The ruling clears the way for corporations and unions to use their own money to support the election or defeat of a candidate.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Woody Guthrie was a voice for labor unions and striking workers and families beaten down by the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Cesar Chavez had built a nationwide coalition of support among unions, church groups,students, minorities and other Americans.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

But it did not want to violate a limit on so-called electioneering communication by corporations and unions within thirty days of a primary election.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

But labor unions and progressive groups tried to defeat her for opposing a "public option."

VOA: special.2010.06.12

This can be true even when the music has nothing to do with unions.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Lawmakers in Indiana,Michigan and Ohio have also proposed limits on unions representing public employees.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Women,labor unions,religious groups, political groups,scientists and environmental organizations would also support the event.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

She also opposed efforts to make it easier for unions to gain members.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Instead,it tied together a number of different unions and gave them general leadership.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Workers said their unions could not negotiate with the new industrial giants.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But leaders of the nation's largest teachers unions criticized the administration's "blueprint."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Labor unions are a traditional base of support for the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

They usually refused to join labor unions or take part in strikes.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

He began helping labor organizers establish unions to help the workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.13