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June 22, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's largest union of government workers has chosen a new leader as its members grapple…
November 16, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Service Employees International Union endorsed President Obama's re-election bid on Wednesday, saying it would deploy its…
November 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Last spring, 8,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers, and others unionized Ohio workers crowded into the state capital…
November 4, 2011
AP - NFL players did decertify their union during their dispute with owners this summer, but got a deal done…
October 25, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For nearly a century, Detroit has been known as the Motor City. These days, however, the engine…
October 15, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Derrick Rose says blame for the NBA's current labor impasse rests squarely with team owners, not players.
October 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The NBA's labor talks stalled Monday, and the league announced it was calling off the first two…
September 15, 2011
LAS VEGAS (AP) - NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith will speak to NBA players during a meeting to update them…
September 13, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The start of the NBA season was thrown into doubt Tuesday after players and owners made…
September 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Negotiators for NBA owners and players are meeting again, the first time they have done so…
August 1, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - NBA owners and players have resumed talks toward a new collective bargaining agreement, exactly one month…
July 1, 2011
OPINION - I don't know where all this is heading. I do know, however, that the two sides are separated…
June 30, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Despite a three-hour meeting on Thursday, the NBA and its players could not close the enormous…
April 18, 2011
OPINION - NBA owners say they have been losing about $300 million per season, and that this season will be…
February 28, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Several hundred union members cheered Monday as the star of the "Lethal Weapon" action movies told the…
November 26, 2010
DeMaurice Smith said if NFL owners lock out players in order to get concessions in a labor dispute, it would…
November 11, 2010
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Almost 100 years after his death, a black Union Civil War vet from South Carolina finally…
September 15, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - South Carolina State Senator Glenn McConnell maintains that rather than disparage people of color; the event gave…
August 27, 2010
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - The role of black Civil War troops in gaining the freedom of black Americans was…