Tag: Labor unions

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

Supporters applaud during the minimum wage increase vote as the Los Angeles City Council votes to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2020, making it the largest city in the nation to do so, in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes )

Minimum wage for thee, but not for me, say L.A. unions

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

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

Scarborough skewers Warren: Take on unions and the real ‘people that stop reform’

Barbara Boland · May 28, 2015 4:53 pm

Whenever politicians are considering an intervention in the economy, you should always ask "who benefits from this increase in government?" (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

L.A. proves it: Minimum-wage hikes are a protection racket for labor unions

Timothy P. Carney · May 27, 2015 6:57 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

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

Member of the SEIU Local 1021 protest outside of San Francisco General Hospital on March 21, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The Obama administration stops at nothing to reward union bosses

Hector Barreto · May 14, 2015 9:00 am

Happening: Companies hiring cheaper immigrants to take U.S. jobs

Paul Bedard · May 8, 2015 8:38 pm

There is "a steady decline in support for redistributive government," notes Thomas Edsall, the longtimeÂ Washington PostÂ reporter now writing for the New York Times.

Why Americans oppose economic redistribution despite income inequality

Michael Barone · May 7, 2015 9:01 am

The vote to table the measure is a victory for President Obama, unions and the Democrat-dominated National Labor Relations Board. (AP)

Senate tables vote on Obama veto of NLRB bill

Susan Ferrechio · May 6, 2015 1:14 am

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks at the AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers summit. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Free-trade critics struggle to work together

Sean Higgins · May 4, 2015 9:00 am