Tag: Labor unions

Union, GE fail to reach deal on upstate NY plant

Associated Press · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., left, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, are co-sponsors of the Employee Rights Act. (Getty Images File)

Examiner Editorial: A workers’ rights bill that almost everyone likes — except Big Labor

Editorial Writer · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are planning a special meeting where officials will discuss a problem that has surfaced with a labor contract that had recently settled a transit dispute. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

BART focuses on new problem with labor contract

Channing Joseph · November 15, 2013 5:00 am

Challenges await New York Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio

Sean Lengell · November 15, 2013 5:00 am

US union vote won’t affect Volkswagen plans

Erik Schelzig · November 15, 2013 5:00 am

Planned Parenthood used union money to fight for the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, said a new investigation. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Report: Labor unions funded Planned Parenthood attacks on GOP in 2012

Paul Bedard · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments on whether the 1935 National Labor Relations Act allows for "neutrality agreements," in which an employer promises not to block a union from seeking to organize its workers in exchange for certain provisions. (AP File)

Supreme Court hears dispute over labor organizing tactic

Sean Lengell · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

Sens. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., left, and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.,ÃÂ joined 18 other colleagues Thursday in speaking out againstÃÂ giving unions special relief from an Obamacare tax. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

GOP senators to administration: Don’t approve Obamacare union fix

Susan Crabtree · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

The largest union at Anglo American Platinum Ltd.'s South African mines got permission to strike after a mediator failed to resolve a wage deadlock. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Union at world’s biggest platinum producer gets right to strike

Bloomberg News · November 13, 2013 5:00 am

The Wall Street Journal: At Boeing, Contract Vote Is a Test of Union Strength

Washington Examiner · November 13, 2013 5:00 am

Dennis Marton walks with protesters at a rally outside a federal courthouse in Detroit on Oct. 23. Detroit's emergency manager and his legal team squared off against unions and pension funds that claim the city isn't qualified to scrub its books clean under Chapter 9 bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit union seeks automatic appeal of any bankruptcy order

Bloomberg News · November 13, 2013 5:00 am

Supreme Court unlikely to say union-casino pact illegal

Associated Press · November 13, 2013 5:00 am