Tag: Labor

Several employers have reduced their payrolls and cut employee hours or the size of their staff. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Beltway Confidential

Study: Seattle’s minimum wage increase goes horribly wrong

Becket Adams · June 26, 2017 2:40 pm

President Obama formally blocked the controversial, long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline project last year, TransCanada, the company behind it, filed a NAFTA complaint seeking $15 billion in damages due to lost revenue. The complaint was withdrawn this year and the pipeline project has gone ahead under President Trump.

Business, Big Labor debate NAFTA tribunals

Sean Higgins · June 26, 2017 4:01 am

Private-sector forecasters had expected jobless claims to nudge up from 234,000 the week before to 239,000. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

House votes to expand job training to welfare recipients

Sean Higgins · June 23, 2017 3:02 pm

As President Trump has previously proposed privatizing air traffic control, it would appear that he supports the House version of the bill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Air traffic control privatization bill introduced

Sean Higgins · June 22, 2017 9:23 pm

Forecasters in the private sector had expected jobless claims to drift down slightly to 246,000. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits a week earlier. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims tick up, but are still very low at 241,000

Joseph Lawler · June 22, 2017 12:32 pm

A candidate like Bryce can walk into union halls, work a high school auditorium, and glad-hand factory floors without looking or sounding like a fraud. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

What the DNC and Tom Perez can learn from Randy Bryce, the mustachioed iron worker challenging Speaker Ryan

Philip Wegmann · June 20, 2017 10:13 pm

"Marvin Kaplan has the qualifications to be an effective member of the National Labor Relations Board." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lamar Alexander promises to move quickly Trump’s NLRB nominee

Sean Higgins · June 20, 2017 4:57 pm

There are an estimated 346 VA employees who do no actual work for the taxpayers, according to a January report by the nonpartisan Government Accounting Office. Instead, these federal workers spend all of their time doing union work. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

VA Secretary Shulkin says reform needed for union official time

Sean Higgins · June 20, 2017 4:38 pm

The bottom line in this case is that Democrats are upset that they lost control of Wisconsin's state government in 2010. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Beltway Confidential

Gerrymandering lawsuit represents Democrats’ newest excuse for election losses

David Freddoso · June 19, 2017 4:41 pm

One impact of the NLRB's decision has been to freeze engagement of new franchisees. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

What do burgers, fries, and economic growth have to do with each other?

Robert Ehrlich · June 19, 2017 4:23 pm

The Justice Department under President Trump has switched sides in a labor case before the Supreme Court dating back to the Obama administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump DOJ diverges with Obama DOJ in labor case before Supreme Court

Daniel Chaitin · June 17, 2017 9:36 pm

The text of the executive order has not been released publicly. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump signs executive order to encourage more apprenticeship programs for workers

Alex Pappas · June 15, 2017 4:04 pm