November 12, 2012
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsA Hostess spokesman said the company is debating whether it will close its Indiana plants after workers went on strike on
Friday. Hostess employs about 875 workers in Indiana, including 288 in Indianapolis.
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October 18, 2012
Associated PressA judge has rejected Indiana's bid to throw out a union challenge to the state's right-to-work law.
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October 16, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressManagement and musicians at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra have reached a labor-contract agreement, effectively ending
a month-long lockout, the musicians' union announced Tuesday morning.
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October 8, 2012
Dan HumanIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra musicians’ contract negotiations remain stalled and another week of concerts has been
canceled after a Saturday deadline passed with no resolution.
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October 4, 2012
IBJ StaffHostess Brands Inc., the maker of Twinkies and Wonderbread, has received the go-ahead from a U.S. bankruptcy court judge to
lower wages for thousands of bakery workers, affecting more than 400 employees in Indiana.
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September 15, 2012
Dan HumanThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s decision to cancel the first two weeks of its season and lock out musicians could
carry long-term risks in alienating subscribers and donors, observers say.
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September 8, 2012
IBJ StaffIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra on Saturday canceled the first two weeks of its new season, saying even a temporary extension
of musicians’ just-expired contract would intensify the organization’s financial woes.
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September 7, 2012
Dan HumanIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra managers and musicians failed to meet a Friday deadline to agree on a new contract, but the
symphony did not immediately follow through on threats to cancel the first two weeks of its new season.
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September 5, 2012
The two sides are set to resume negotiations at about noon Wednesday in an attempt to reach an agreement on a new contract.
The previous agreement expired Sunday.
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September 1, 2012
Dan HumanEven if the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s management and musicians overcome gaping differences and reach a contract
agreement, industry experts say disconcerting questions will continue to hang over the organization.
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August 31, 2012
Union representatives for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's musicians said Friday that management intends to call off
the first two weeks of the season if the performers do not accept the current contract proposal by Sept. 7.
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July 17, 2012
IBJ StaffIndianapolis hotels could no longer ban contract workers from direct employment under an ordinance passed Monday night by
the City-County Council.
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July 7, 2012
The two sides are trying to replace a labor contract that became amendable in 2007.
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June 25, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe first janitors’ union contract in the city will expire soon, and union organizers are looking to the Indianapolis
City-County Council to give them a boost in the negotiations.
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June 23, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCompany pulls request to block Teamster website as union ramps up fight in its own lawsuit.
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May 2, 2012
Associated PressAn attorney for a union challenging Indiana's new right-to-work law said Wednesday that he's perplexed by the state's
court filing opposing his amended complaint in which he argued the law is unconstitutional.
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May 1, 2012
Associated PressState attorneys asked a federal judge Tuesday to bar a union from amending its lawsuit challenging Indiana's new right-to-work
law, arguing that most of the new claims are the same as those in the original complaint filed in February.
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April 9, 2012
Associated PressUnion attorneys are using a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave corporations and unions the green light to spend unlimited
sums of cash on campaign ads as part of a legal effort to overturn Indiana's new right-to-work law.
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March 31, 2012
Scott OlsonLocal economic development groups are wasting no time touting Indiana's new right-to-work law, a spot check shows.
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March 29, 2012
Scott OlsonChautauqua Airlines Inc., Republic Airline Inc. and Shuttle America Inc. charge that a union-backed website is damaging their
reputation and hindering efforts to hire pilots. Parent Republic Airways Holdings and the union are embroiled in contentious
contract negotiations.
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March 19, 2012
Anthony SchoettleAfter a months long Save The Star campaign, the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild last week ratified a contract guaranteeing its
members raises of between 2 percent and 4 percent. But the union lost the fight to save local design jobs.
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March 17, 2012
Right-to-work, smoking ban were only two of a long list of actions taken.
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March 15, 2012
Associated PressMBC Group President Eric Holloway said Thursday that he always planned to expand his Brookville operations and that a state
press release issued two weeks ago mistakenly quoted him as saying right-to-work legislation factored into his decision.
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February 28, 2012
Associated PressA union seeking to block Indiana's new right-to-work law is asking a federal judge to issue an emergency temporary restraining
order to keep the state from enforcing the law.
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February 22, 2012
Associated PressInternational Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 says a suit being filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Hammond claims
the right-to-work law violates the federal and state constitutions.
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I'm sure there are others, but his name automatically came to my mind
Houdini
magician on the court
STEVE MARTIN - funny magic
It has to be Houdini!