The White River Central Labor Council is the federation of labor representing affiliated unions and their members in the Indiana counties of Bartholomew, Brown, Greene Lawrence, Martin, Monroe and Owen. The mission of the White River Central Labor Council is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our area and the nation.

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It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>

New findings from Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner provide a comprehensive, independent analysis of employer behavior in union representation elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Her research identifies the range and incidence of legal and illegal coercive tactics used by employers NLRB elections and the ineffectiveness of current labor law to protect and enforce workers’ rights during the process. Click here to read more.