Metal Trades Councils

Eastern Idaho MTC
http://www.expage.com/eimtc

Representation Resources

EEOC Press Releases on Decisions
http://www.eeoc.gov/pr.html

NLRB Press Releases on Decisions
http://www.nlrb.gov/press/press.html

Wage and Hour Division
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/

Wage and Hour Press Releases
http://www.dol.gov/esa/media/press/whd/whdprss.htm

FLRA Court Opinions
http://www.flra.gov/solicitor/court/court.html

FLRA Office of the Solicitor
http://www.flra.gov/solicitor/solicitr.html

Federal Service Impasses Panel
http://www.flra.gov/fsip/panel.html

labor Management Relations Index of Decisions FSIP
http://www.opm.gov/LMR/fsip/

The Labor Research Association
http://www.laborresearch.org/

White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Thomas/ Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

Political Research

Use these resources to investigate the campaign contributions of a specific individual, or the industry and individual backing going to a specific candidate. Also, research who backs that organization running political TV ads in your community.

http://www.opensecrets.org
The Center for Responsive Politics website includes campaign finance databases for hard, soft and PAC contributions for Federal elections as well as links to state campaign financing databases.

http://www.campaignfinance.org
This search engine allows you to track the political cash flow across several states in federal and state races as well as the Federal Procurement Database.

http://www.followthemoney.org
The National Institute of Money in State Politics offers an online database for researching who is investing in state elections and ballot measures.

http://www.commoncause.org/laundromat
The soft money Laundromat from Common Cause shows large money donors to the political parties. Businesses outspent workers 12 to 1 in the most recent election.

http://www.fec.gov
The Federal Election Committee offers access to all of the recent filings for political action committees, candidate committees and other regulated campaign organizations on its website.

http://nonprofit.guidestar.org
Financial profiles of nonprofit and charity organizations including access to IRS 990 Forms.

News Resources

One of the best ways to keep track of what major corporations are doing is to read the news. You can search for news using some online resources. In addition to research tools already mentioned like Lexis, some of the most common free online news tools are listed below.

http://news.yahoo.com/
Yahoo's news site includes wire service news stories and reports from some major daily newspapers.

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/
Directory of online news sources.

http://emedia1.mediainfo.com/emedia/
Search the Editor & Publisher Interactive's Online Media Directory to find a particular publication's website.

http://www.northernlight.com
Northern Light is a search engine that covers both the "free" Web and proprietary content (called the Special Collection) it licenses from a wide variety of publications. You can search both types of content at no cost. For Special Collection material, you can view an abstract at no cost but must pay to display the entire article.

http://www.transium.com
Transium is a well-organized site that indexes articles on companies according to a defined set of categories (corporate strategy, marketing, labor relations, etc.) and provides abstracts as well as citations.

Legal Resources

Court records often say a lot about company behavior. Use these resources to do research on what a corporation has been—is being—sued for and other legal tips

http://securities.stanford.edu/
Retrieve full text of over two thousand class action securities fraud complaints, briefs, and orders filed since the effective date of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Retrieve summaries of Federal complaints arranged alphabetically by name of company sued or date of filing.

http://www.law.com/special/professionals/nlj/nlj_clientlist1-50.html
This resource from the National Law Journal tells you which law firms represent top corporations.

http://www.courtlink.com/
Real time online access to federal, state, and local court records. Most comprehensive online source of court docket sheets. Sign up for Courtlink's CaseStream Web service with a credit card.

http://www.knowx.com/
Register with a credit card to search public records including bankruptcy, lawsuits, liens, assets, and UCC filings. Pay for only the materials you view or download.

http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/sldtoc.html
The Securities Lawyer's Deskbook contains the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and their rules and regulations.

http://thomas.loc.gov/
Searchable database of the Congressional Record and current legislative bills.

http://www.fdic.gov/
Database of banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Includes bank profiles, financial reports filed with federal bank regulators, and demographic lending data.

Resources for Laid o ff workers

http://www.laidoffworkers.org