Labor Legislation

Should an employee be punished for shooting and killing a would-be robber if it is against the employer's policy to carry a gun? Police cleared an Indianapolis grocery store manager of wrongdoing after he shot and killed a man trying to rob the Kroger...

SOUTH BEND — A South Bend School Corporation bus driver has been charged with having sex with a student, according to the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office. The driver, 32-year-old Monisha Simpson, is accused of child seduction, a Class D...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels asked Indiana lawmakers on Tuesday to approve a statewide smoking ban and dedicate more money toward victims from last summer's state fair stage collapse during his final State of the State speech. Daniels...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels defended divisive right-to-work legislation that he only recently put his name behind, while asking House Democrats to end their boycott of the measure. Daniels spent a large amount of his final "State of...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A prayer group is getting special access to the Statehouse for the opening day of the 2012 session. People attending Capitol Commission Indiana's prayer day at the Statehouse can show a copy of an email message to skirt an...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A divisive labor bill is back in Republican hands after Indiana House Democrats on Monday ended a three-day boycott of the chamber to stall the measure. Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said the right-to-work bill will get a...

Indiana became the Rust Belt's first right-to-work state Wednesday in a move that is sure to embolden advocates seeking to curtail union rights across the country. But whether other states can replicate the conservatives' success in Indiana is less...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against boycotting Democratic legislators who gathered in the Statehouse Rotunda with labor union supporters rather than show up to debate a divisive right-to-...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan Chamber of Commerce says it wants Gov. Rick Snyder to propose lowering taxes on business equipment and spending more money on roads in his second annual State of the State address Wednesday. A coalition of workers'...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's Republican House speaker threatened to start imposing $1,000 fines against Democratic legislators who resumed their boycott of a right-to-work bill Tuesday. Speaker Brian Bosma said he would start the next House...

The fight over Indiana's proposed “right-to-work” bill will take center stage Tuesday as House lawmakers get set to fire up more debate. Democrats are pushing for a referendum on the issue or they may walk out. But do you know what right-to-...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Benny Harris has been boarding a rented van with some fellow road construction workers most days for the past couple weeks for an hour-plus drive to make a stand in the Indiana Statehouse against a contentious labor bill. The...