Sean Higgins

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The National Labor Relations BoardÂ is considering designating companies that use temp agencies to be 'joint employers.'Â (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Feds move to help temp workers unionize

Sean Higgins · September 27, 2015 4:01 am

"The lesson we learned in 2013 was to mobilize, mobilize, mobilize and to torture every member of Congress until they get busy and do their job," J. David Cox said. (Wikimedia Commons)Â

Union vows to ‘torture’ lawmakers over gov’t shutdown

Sean Higgins · September 24, 2015 10:58 pm

Members of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and their supporters demonstrate outside their offices Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

ThinkProgress latest liberal news outlet to unionize

Sean Higgins · September 24, 2015 10:49 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,Â argues that OSHA had no business adopting the NLRB's standards.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Alexander alleges ‘coordinated effort to change the law’ by NLRB, OSHA

Sean Higgins · September 23, 2015 11:58 pm

Blowback as labor bosses, not members, back Clinton

Sean Higgins · September 23, 2015 11:35 pm

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2015, former Republican presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks in San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Unions to Scott Walker: Good riddance

Sean Higgins · September 22, 2015 5:55 pm

"Pundits can evaluate the political meaning if the want, but my view is very plain: These are hateful and racist viewpoints," Richard Trumka said. (AP Photo)Â

AFL-CIO says Walker no longer a ‘national’ disgrace

Sean Higgins · September 22, 2015 10:50 am

In this Nov. 21, 2014, file photo, about 50 activists and members of immigrant families stand during a news conference at Utah's capitol in Salt Lake City, to celebrate Obama's plans for deportation relief and work permits. (AP File Photo)

Obama promotes labor laws to immigrants before they arrive

Sean Higgins · September 22, 2015 4:01 am

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday that it was suing Sprint Corp. for billing customers for unwanted services. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Consumer bureau overestimating numbers hurt by discrimination

Sean Higgins · September 18, 2015 6:03 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets supporters after addressing a GOP fundraising event, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, in Birch Run, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Donald Trump and the allure of Daveism

Sean Higgins · September 18, 2015 4:02 am

OUR Walmart split into two competing factions due to internal friction over the direction and effectiveness. (AP Photo)

Anti-Walmart group splits in two as unions, activists spar

Sean Higgins · September 17, 2015 9:50 pm

AnnÂ Coulter refused to apologize or retract the tweet, telling Fox News Thursday that it was an appropriate criticism because it was "pandering, pandering, pandering. (AP Photo)Â

Jewish Dems slam Coulter remarks

Sean Higgins · September 17, 2015 6:23 pm