Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:22:29 +0000

Published: 12/19/2007

By Zach Church
Staff writer

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December 23, 2007
 
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that employers have the right to prohibit workers from using the company's e-mail system to send out union-related messages, a decision that could hamper communications between labor unions and their membership.

Teamsters Hail IRS Decision to Fine FedEx $319 Million

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX)
was delivered a big lump of coal today by the Internal Revenue Service,
which slammed the company with a $319 million fine and penalties over its
illegal independent contractor model. The IRS determined that FedEx Ground
workers were indeed employees, a fact long asserted by the Teamsters Union.

By Russell Contreras, Globe Staff  |  November 29, 2007
It was a school committee that Lawrence Superintendent Wilfredo T. Laboy called "the best I've ever encountered as a school administrator."

In the 2006 elections, aspiring Democrats attacked the Bush
administration's free trade policies, and more than 20 new members of
Congress were elected, giving the Democratic Party its new majority in
the House of Representatives. Yet two weeks ago Democratic Party
leaders urged those same members of Congress to vote for a new free
trade agreement with Peru.

Union rallies for Lucent jobs; Workers meet for first time since learning plant is scheduled to close