Tag: Labor

A federal jury in Boston acquitted four Teamsters union members of conspiracy and extortion charges, despite their widely publicized harassment of "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)

‘Top Chef’ case exposes outdated labor laws

Luka Ladan · August 18, 2017 4:01 am

The council was disbanded Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka: Trump’s manufacturing council was ‘a joke’

Naomi Lim · August 18, 2017 3:20 am

The portion of 16-24 year-olds who had or sought a job increased from 60.6 percent last month from 60.1 percent in 2016. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

More young people are employed this summer, but fewer looked for work

Emily Jashinsky · August 17, 2017 9:39 pm

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the business leaders council that President Trump created never met and never did anything. Trumka, who had been one of the members of the panel and joined the exodus of people leaving it on Tuesday, called in a "broken promise" by the president. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Richard Trumka: Trump’s business council never met

Sean Higgins · August 17, 2017 7:51 pm

On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits a week earlier. Economists had expected a slight dip in jobless claims to 240,000. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Jobless claims plunge to 232,000, lowest in almost six months

Joseph Lawler · August 17, 2017 12:31 pm

"We cannot sit on a council for a president who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism," the leader of the nation's largest labor federation said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AFL-CIO chief Trumka quits Trump board after press conference

Sean Higgins · August 15, 2017 10:06 pm

The labor federation argued that all of the details must be made public, a request likely to be opposed by the White House and its trade partners. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AFL-CIO demands transparency in NAFTA talks

Sean Higgins · August 14, 2017 7:04 pm

They speculate that in the years ahead, jobs like driving taxis or tending cash registers could be lost to automation. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

New study finds minimum wage hikes lead to job automation

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2017 2:54 pm

Google just didn't want the bad publicity of having someone with such ideas on their payroll. (iStock by Getty Images)

Fired Google engineer James Damore may have NLRB case

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2017 9:56 pm

Appalachian coal magnate Bob Murray on Friday won a pair of legal victories in lawsuits against HBO comedian John Oliver and the New York Times over their portrayal of his coal business. (Photo by Richard Shotwell Invision/AP)

Energy and Environment

John Oliver, HBO lose court round to coal exec Bob Murray in defamation case

John Siciliano · August 11, 2017 5:47 pm

Harvard economist George Borjas is immigration critics' favorite intellectual. His work is regularly cited by the White House, top Republican lawmakers, and conservative pundits to justify policies that would keep more people out of the country. Without his work, they would be hard-pressed to find any academic or scholar making the same arguments. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

The Cuban-born Harvard economist who immigration critics love

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2017 4:01 am

Advocates of a higher minimum wage have scaled back their push for a $15-an-hour rate, holding fewer events this year than they have since the movement began in 2014.

Minimum wage advocates scale back their $15 fight

Sean Higgins · August 10, 2017 11:15 pm