Tag: Labor unions

Home health care industry workers will now be included under federal minimum wage laws beginning in 2015. (Thinkstock)

Minimum wage extended to home health care workers

Sean Higgins · September 17, 2013 4:00 am

Cincinnati has similar financial problems to those that caused Detroit to fall and might soon join the Motor City in bankruptcy, according to Katie Gage, executive director of the Workforce Fairness Institute. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Will Cincinnati go bankrupt next?

Ashe Schow · September 17, 2013 12:00 am

LaborÃÂ unions now represent only 6.6 percent of all private sector jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: Union leaders get rich as membership falls

Editorial · September 16, 2013 4:00 am

Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory compared Wal-Mart to the leader of Nazi Germany at a "living wage" rally in front of the D.C. City Council on Tuesday. (Photo: Sean Higgins/For the Examiner)

Walmart compared to Hitler at DC living wage rally

Sean Higgins · September 16, 2013 4:00 am

LaborÃÂ unions now represent only 6.6 percent of all private sector jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: Union leaders get rich as membership falls

Editorial · September 15, 2013 4:00 am

Detroit Free Press: How Detroit went broke

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2013 4:00 am

Union leader warns that Obamacare will devastate AFL-CIO

Sean Higgins · September 14, 2013 4:00 am

White House: No subsidies for union health plans

Sam Hananel · September 14, 2013 12:01 am

Martin Luther King Jr., center left with arms raised, marches along Constitution Avenue with other civil rights protesters on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. (AP Photo)

AFL-CIO that ignored King march in 1963, now opens doors to NAACP

Sean Higgins · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

U.S. flags are shown outside of General Motors world headquarters in a Detroit file photo from April 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

General Motors bailout czar downplayed role in Delphi union pension deal

Michal Conger · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

In this Sept. 7, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks at the AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic at Coney Island in Cincinnati. Some labor unions that initially backed Obama's health care overhaul are now frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the plan that could hurt their members. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)

White House looks to squash labor union revolt on Obamacare

Brian Hughes · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., introduced legislation Monday, preventing the administration from providing a special fix to union-backed multi-employer health insurance plans, also known as "Taft-Hartley plans". (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Senator proposes bill banning union Obamacare bailout

Sean Higgins · September 12, 2013 4:00 am