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• Pay-to-Play Group Garnered Sackler’s Access to Attorneys General Deciding their Fate

  By Scott Zimmerman | September 24th, 2019 at 9:43 AM (CST)

  The makers of an opioid tied to 400,000 deaths had special access to the attorneys general that chose to take their "sweetheart deal" -- saving the owners of the company from admitting wrongdoing -- thanks to a pay-for-play group called the Republican Attorneys General Association.

• Massachusetts Law Could Blunt the Effect of Janus’s Attack on Unions

  By Don Wiener | September 23rd, 2019 at 3:08 PM (CST)

  On September 19, the Massachusetts legislature overrode Republican Governor Charlie Baker's veto of a bill that would help public employee unions maintain dues-paying members.

• Workers Lose in Koch’s Georgia-Pacific Restructuring

  By Don Wiener | August 20th, 2019 at 11:22 AM (CST)

  Koch Industries' paper subsidiary cuts more than 2,100 jobs in the past two years, with taxpayers left holding the bill.

• ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas

  By David Armiak | August 14th, 2019 at 9:45 AM (CST)

  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets this week in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, for its 46th Annual Meeting at the posh JW Marriott hotel.

• Oregon Strengthens Public Workers’ Right to Organize

  By Don Wiener | July 1st, 2019 at 1:50 PM (CST)

  New post-Janus law helps level the playing field in Oregon in the face of right-wing campaigns to weaken public sector unions.