Tag: Labor unions

Beltway Confidential

Minimum wage hike won’t help striking fast-food workers

Jason Russell · December 4, 2014 10:00 am

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Walker’s reforms bleed Wisconsin unions

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2014 7:16 pm

Only 615 feds have been laid off since 2010 in RIFs -- "Reductions in Force" -- not including 1,350 from the military.Â (iStock Photo)

Despite dark sequester predictions, most federal agencies are getting bigger

Luke Rosiak · December 2, 2014 3:36 pm

Eugene Puryear calls for a living wage and justice for Mike Brown as protesters storm Walmart, in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. A grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday, Nov. 24th, 2014, declined to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American man. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Walmart workers scarce at Black Friday anti-Walmart protest in D.C.

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2014 5:10 pm

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HUD fires almost no one, not because its workers are stellar

Luke Rosiak · November 26, 2014 2:00 pm

A large gathering protests against Wal-Mart on Black Friday, Nov 23, 2012, in Secaucus, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Walmart protest will include 50 DC-area employees

Sean Higgins · November 25, 2014 11:34 pm

Four Environmental Protection Agency employees have been on paid administrative leave for more than a year. (iStock Photo)

Legions of federal workers on paid leave for months

Luke Rosiak · November 25, 2014 7:10 pm

Government workers at the federal, state and local level all enjoy more job security than their private sector counterparts. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Government workers are harder to fire than private ones

Jason Russell · November 25, 2014 5:40 pm

The union-backed group OUR Walmart said Friday its largest protests against the retailer on the day after Thanksgiving will occur at 10 locations nationally. (AP Photo)

Anti-Walmart group plans ‘largest’ Black Friday protests at 10 locations

Sean Higgins · November 21, 2014 6:37 pm

AFL-CIO President Richard TrumkaÂ praised President Obama's executive order on immigration, saying the president was acting within his authority to better the nation's "moral and economic interests."Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Unions say immigration announcement a ‘big step forward’

Sean Higgins · November 20, 2014 11:00 pm

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Feds aren’t accurately tracking taxpayer dollars spent on unions, GAO finds

Sarah Bedford · November 20, 2014 2:52 pm

Engineers union files class action against Impax Laboratories

LocalLabs News Service · November 19, 2014 8:45 pm