Tag: Labor unions

Unions: FairPoint not playing fair in labor talks

David Sharp · August 31, 2014 12:52 pm

NYC union: Cops not to blame for drugged-out death

Vanessa Alvarez · August 30, 2014 8:14 pm

Hoping to avoid the turmoil that plagued the labor movement during the 2008 presidential election, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Thursday the federation's member unions will withhold their presidential endorsements until they all agree on a candidate. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Unions agree to agree on their 2016 presidential candidate

Sean Higgins · August 28, 2014 7:32 pm

Revealing that Big Labor leaders have been meeting privately with President Obama on a possible immigration executive action just as Big Business leaders have, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged the White House to be aggressive and make broad, expansive policy. (Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor)

AFL-CIO chief urges Obama to be bold on immigration executive action

Sean Higgins · August 28, 2014 4:11 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 filepicture a worker closes a Germanwings passenger jet at the airport in Cologne, Germany. A German union representing pilots says it is planning a new round of strikes in a long-running dispute over wages and early retirement benefits. The Vereinigung Cockpit union says in a statement it will order pilots of Germanwings, a subsidiary of Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa, to go on strike Friday if further negotiations on Thursday fail to achieve their goals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Germanwings pilots to go on strike Friday

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 1:07 pm

McDonald's Corp. has no way to appeal the federal government's decision that it is liable for legal complaints at its franchised restaurants, industry experts say. That's because there is no decision to appeal -- at least no official one. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

McDonald’s can’t appeal NLRB franchise decision

Sean Higgins · August 28, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, container ships wait to be off-loaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. West Coast dockworkers and their employers say they have reached a tentative agreement on the difficult issue of health care, a major hurdle in contract negotiations at the ports that are vital to U.S. trade. In a joint statement Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014 announcing the tentative deal, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and an association representing shipping lines said it depended on resolving other issues. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Deal on health care aids port contract talks

Justin Pritchard · August 27, 2014 11:43 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. On July 30, 2014, Cantwell, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, introduced legislation that would make it easier for women-owned companies to get loans and government contracts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Cantwell targets small business loan gender gap

Joyce Rosenberg · August 27, 2014 2:12 pm

There is virtually no way Obama could muster the 67 Senate votes required for treaty approvals because Republicans would oppose a new climate change pact, as would more than a few Senate Democrats. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Is Obama’s war on coal burying the Democrats’ New Deal coalition for good?

Mark Tapscott · August 27, 2014 12:34 pm

Anti-UAW workers to form own union at VW plant

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 8:02 am

Minnesota home-care workers vote to unionize

Kyle Potter · August 26, 2014 10:50 pm

In 2011, Gov. Mark Dayton (left) issued an executive order, which aside from the ability to unionize, didn't offer home health providers any state employee benefits. (Getty images/Chip Somodevilla)

Beltway Confidential

Minnesota certifies union after it wins 13 percent support

Sean Higgins · August 26, 2014 9:29 pm