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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Idaho's so-called "right-to-work" law.

DENVER (AP) — CenturyLink workers in 13 states in the West and Midwest are authorizing a strike, if union leaders and the telecommunications company can't reach a contract agreement. The Communications Workers of America said Monday that more than 88 percent of those voting backed the action...

(AP) - A Republican-dominated Senate committee aims to forbid Idaho state and local government from requiring union labor on public works projects. Friday's party-line Senate State Affairs Committee vote came despite warnings from union attorney James Piotrowski, who contends this bill would have the same effect as one passed in 2011: Legal costs for taxpayers - and defeat in federal court. Read M

Some are calling the President's State of the Union speech last night a knock out while others say it was just another election year speech meant to gain support.

A federal judge has thrown out Idaho's two newest anti-union laws, saying they violate federal rules and would restrict the free play of economic forces.  The laws, intended to weaken the power of labor organizations in Idaho, were passed during the 2011 legislative session...

Union postal workers rallied across the country and here in Idaho yesterday. They want local lawmakers on board with a plan to pull the agency from the brink of financial collapse without layoffs, cutbacks or closures.

The members of the Twin Falls City Council heard from local postal workers last night regarding a plan to consolidate mail processing centers in Twin Falls and Boise.

Top Story Podcast 6/6/11: First hour - USPS wants to close down the mail processing operation in Twin Falls and move it to Boise to save money. Second hour - East End Update and John Edwards, that stellar pillar of our American community, pleads "not guilty" to breaking campaign finance laws ...

Teachers want voters to decide if Idaho should phase out teacher tenure, restrict collective bargaining and introduce merit pay.  Idaho Education Association spokeswoman Julie Fanselow told the Idaho Statesman for a story Thursday that the IEA received $75,000 from the NEA to pay for printing costs and signature gatherers...

Foes of Idaho’s education reform plan have announced that today will be a day of protest. More the a dozen rallies are planned around Idaho in Twin Falls, Kimberly, Pocatello, Moscow, Post Falls, Blackfoot, Driggs, Idaho Falls, Lewiston, Buhl, Cassia, Ada, and Blaine counties.