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A day after he refused to endorse an Ohio ballot measure that limits public employee union rights, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is "110 percent" behind the effort.

Hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers ratified a labor deal with Ford Motor Co on Wednesday, leaving Chrysler as the last U.S. automaker without a finalized contract.

Demonstrators are preparing to march on New York's financial district, with rallies also planned in several other US cities. Occupy Wall Street organisers hope to attract thousands of people to the rally in lower Manhattan, having won the backing of powerful unions. The demonstrations are now in their third week and show no sign of fading.

General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers have reached an agreement on a new contract....

General Motors and the United Auto Workers union are in the "final stage" of negotiations on a new labor contract and a deal could be struck as soon as Friday.

The Wisconsin battle over collective bargaining for public workers continues even though the bill was signed. Voters now turn to recall efforts.

A Wisconsin judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state's new and contentious collective bargaining law from taking effect.

As many as 100,000 people protested at the Wisconsin State Capitol on Saturday against a new law severely restricting government unions, and they greeted as returning heroes Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to stall the measure.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said on Friday he was canceling the layoff warning notices he sent late last week to public sector unions after lawmakers approved his proposal to restrict the collective bargaining rights of those unions.

The Assembly is set to pass the bill limiting collective bargaining rights for government workers in Wisconsin after a Senate procedural move ended the standoff on Wednesday.