- New Statesman – What really happened in Trafalgar Square
- It's midnight on 26 March, a day that saw almost half a million students, trades unionists, parents, children and concerned citizens from all over Britain demonstrate against the government's austerity programme. All day, street fights across London between anti-cuts protestors and the police have turned this city into a little warzone. Barricades burned in Piccadilly as militant groups escalated the vandalism; the shopfronts of major banks and tax-avoiding companies have been smashed and daubed with graffiti, and Oxford Street was occupied and turned into a mass street party.
- Richard Clarke on Chamber Attack Plans: It’s A Felony, They Should Go To Jail | Crooks and Liars
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- We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » This is Not OK: Oklahoma Bill Strips 13 Cities of Collective Bargaining Requirement
- The Oklahoma Senate today passed a bill through committee that would remove the requirement of collective bargaining for cities with more than 35,000 residents. There are 13 such cities in Oklahoma.
- Tom Fahey’s State House Dome: NH looks like ‘Wisconsin on steroids’ – Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011
- Wisconsin allows workers to bargain for pay, but its reform law ended rights to negotiate for benefits. The changes Kurk propose go further. His bill would end all rights to bargain once a contract expires. The amendment says that once a contract ends, workers become "at-will employees whose salaries, benefits and terms and conditions of employment shall be at the discretion of the employer."
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