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Labor unions and public workers claimed an important victory Tuesday after over 63 percent of voters in Ohio rejected Gov. John Kasich's (R) plan to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights.

The head of the largest federation of unions in the United States released a video on Wednesday in which he announced his support for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.

Rallying attendees on the second afternoon of the Take Back The American Dream summit, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said of Republicans, "If they want to have a debate on class warfare, we'll have that debate," because "It wasn't our class that started the war on working Americans."

In an interview to be aired Friday evening on Bloomberg Television, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka tells interviewer AL Hunt that he is hoping President Obama will propose a jobs creation program amounting to $400 billion a year over the next ten years in order to get the country moving again.

Richard Trumka, president of union giant AFL-CIO, delivered a scathing review of President Barack Obama at a press breakfast Thursday morning. He accused him of abandoning Democratic ideals and aligning himself with the conservative tea party.

SANTA FE (Reuters) - New Mexico's governor broke the law by firing all members of the state's Labor Relations Board and unions seek to reverse the move by an appeal to the state Supreme Court, a union leader said on Thursday.