LABOR
Latest from CTU Strike: Lawyers for Chicago Public Schools filed a lawsuit in Circuit Court this morning seeking a preliminary injunction to immediately end the teachers strike.
The Washington Post examines what the bombshell news out of Wisconsin this weekend might mean for Labor Unions nationally.
From The Los Angeles Times: A group with ties to the conservative billionaire Koch brothers has dropped $4 million to pass a ballot measure that would severely limit the political activity of labor unions.
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school board members settled work agreements with three labor unions last week and set salaries for administrative employees not covered by collective bargaining units.
HEALTH CARE
Nurses and union representatives are asking for more staffing on both the Salem and Portland campuses of the Oregon State Hospital, which cares for about 600 mentally ill patients. Hospital staffers say violence at the hospital has reached unacceptable levels and attribute it to having too few staff to take care of the patients.