Sean Higgins

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The national right-to-work group said last year there was "zero reason to believe that any local right-to-work ordinances adopted in Kentucky or any other state will be upheld in court." (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Unions would benefit under conservative group’s right-to-work fix

Sean Higgins · June 1, 2015 7:27 pm

President Obama's administration is pursuing a new labor rule that would largely ignore big business and instead target small and medium-sized companies. (AP Photo)

New union-friendly rule from Obama targets small business

Sean Higgins · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

Probe finds $2.2 billion in ‘improper’ unemployment insurance payments

Sean Higgins · May 29, 2015 11:17 pm

The organized labor groups' demand has provoked anger from other supporters of the higher wage and charges of hypocrisy from business groups and their allies who have opposed the increase. (AP Photo)Â

L.A. unions accused of hypocrisy in minimum wage push

Sean Higgins · May 28, 2015 10:39 pm

Blood collection workers picket in front of the American Red Cross in Cleveland. (AP)

Teamsters pension fund uses new law to cut benefits

Sean Higgins · May 24, 2015 9:00 am

A sign for a McDonald's restaurant is seen in Times Square on June 9, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Is labor board pulling back on franchising standard?

Sean Higgins · May 21, 2015 9:00 am

FBI Assistant Director in Charge Andrew McCabe, Washington Field Office, left, and Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer, center, listens as Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces the big banks plead guilty to criminally manipulating global currency. (AP Photo)Â

5 big banks plead guilty to currency manipulation

Sean Higgins · May 20, 2015 4:09 pm

One of Warren's key pieces of evidence is that the Department of Labor has "accepted only five complaints against countries" since 2008. (Getty Image)

Smack! Elizabeth Warren gets it wrong, Obama’s trade rep says

Sean Higgins · May 20, 2015 9:00 am

US President Obama arrives to speak at Laborfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 1, 2014. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Comrades in arms

Sean Higgins · May 18, 2015 9:00 am

George Stephanopoulos attends the International Women's Media Foundation's 2013 Courage In Journalism And Lifetime Achievement Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on October 23, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for International Women's Media Foundation)

Sanders says Stephanopoulos should have disclosed Clinton foundation gifts

Sean Higgins · May 17, 2015 10:26 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

Sanders demands Hillary clarify trade position

Sean Higgins · May 17, 2015 10:11 pm

Walker, Bush, Perry wow Iowa crowd

Sean Higgins · May 17, 2015 9:47 pm