Tag: Labor

Whichever workers' paradise you visit this Labor Day, spare a thought for your fellow Americans back home. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Beltway Confidential

Labor Day is coming: What better time to visit a workers’ paradise?

Tom Rogan · August 25, 2017 4:23 pm

The only ones hurt by right-to-work and its related reforms are the union bosses who see it as a threat to the steady stream of forced union dues they've come to depend on. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Union workers want freedom, so why do union bosses oppose it?

Robert Fellner · August 25, 2017 4:01 am

Former President Ronald Reagan will be inducted into the Labor Department's Hall of Fame, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced Thursday. Acosta noted that the late Republican president had the unique distinction of being the only president of a labor organization to also sit in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)

Ronald Reagan to go into Labor Department’s Hall of Fame

Sean Higgins · August 24, 2017 5:52 pm

"Corporate America has a long history of supporting white supremacy. CEOs' rebuke of Trump doesn't change that," Jobs With Justice tweeted Thursday. It followed that with another tweet, "White supremacy and low wages go hand-in-hand. #fightfor15." Jobs with Justice is a pro-labor activist group whose board of directors includes AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, among other top union leaders. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Union group seeks to tie companies to white supremacy

Sean Higgins · August 24, 2017 4:59 pm

President Trump is close to picking Vermont lawyer Peter Robb to be the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, sources indicate. (Wikipedia Commons)

Trump close on pick to lead NLRB

Sean Higgins · August 23, 2017 9:48 pm

An estimated 114 multi-employer pension plans covering more than 1.3 million people are underfunded by more than $36 million and are expected to become insolvent in the next two decades, according to a new report. The Teamsters' Central States, the Bakery and Confectionary Workers Union, and the United Mine Workers plans account for $22.8 billion, about 62.5 percent, of the unfunded liability. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

1.3 million workers’ pension plans expected to go insolvent

Sean Higgins · August 23, 2017 9:23 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that there is an "emerging consensus" in Washington to replace the immigration system with the skills-based policy endorsed by President Trump, but without cuts to immigration levels. (AP Photo / Don Ryan)

Paul Ryan cites ’emerging consensus’ on skills-based immigration

Joseph Lawler · August 23, 2017 6:46 pm

"I can only assume that someone in the White House preferred not to have labor's voice at the table after all," Thea Lee wrote in Cosmopolitan. (Wikipedia Commons)

Former AFL-CIO official says labor group excluded from White House meetings

Sean Higgins · August 22, 2017 8:28 pm

The workers reported nearly equal levels of satisfaction regarding wages, workplace safety, and healthcare benefits. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Union workers satisfied in right-to-work states: Study

Sean Higgins · August 21, 2017 4:41 pm

Missouri union activists turned in more than 310,000 signatures Friday to ensure a fall ballot referendum asking voters whether they wanted to keep the state's right-to-work law. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

In Missouri’s right-to-work ballot fight, wording matters

Sean Higgins · August 21, 2017 4:01 am

Activists turned in more than 310,000 signatures calling for a ballot referendum on whether the state should keep the right-to-work law it adopted this year. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Missouri unions block state right-to-work vote

Sean Higgins · August 18, 2017 10:26 pm

No sooner had President Trump embraced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., than the predictable eruption of false and deceptive claims spewed forth from every direction. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Finance and Economy

Six bogus arguments against Trump’s immigration reform bill

Dan Stein · August 18, 2017 4:01 am