Tag: Labor

DNC’s Perez: ‘I understand’ why you voted for Trump

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2017 9:03 pm

Trump said he would make an announcement about wages paid by contractors, but nobody knows what it could be.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Business, labor leaders puzzle over Trump contracting remark

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2017 5:47 pm

Private-sector forecasters had expected jobless claims to fall to 262,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Job creation at seven-month high in February

Joseph Lawler · April 11, 2017 2:20 pm

A group of 47 House Republicans is urging the heads of Congress' appropriations committee to restrain the National Labor Relations Board from implementing several of former President Barack Obama's changes to labor regulations. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Republicans call on Congress to restrain NLRB

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2017 6:32 pm

A labor board official ruled that CAIR does not qualify as a religious group exempt from the labor act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Islamic group CAIR fighting effort to unionize staff

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2017 5:02 pm

A woman shouts with purple SEIU stickers on her face.

Beltway Confidential

Minnesotans working to end a union’s benefit-theft scam

David Freddoso · April 10, 2017 4:01 pm

The trade-offs may not always be large, but they are inevitable. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Minimum wage myth bumps painfully into reality

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2017 4:01 am

Former head of the SEIU wants states to be allowed to experiment to help workers' interests. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Effort to decertify Minnesota union gains steam

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump ripped the Tuesday decision by a federal court to strike down his executive order blocking federal funding from sanctuary cities, in a series of tweets Wednesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Labor Pains

Irwin M. Stelzer · April 8, 2017 2:58 pm

President Trump's pick to head the Labor Department, former assistant attorney general for civil rights Alexander Acosta, is heading toward a relatively easy confirmation when he gets a vote in the full Senate this month. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Liberals largely quiet on Acosta bid for labor secretary

Sean Higgins · April 6, 2017 8:28 pm

Includes exceptions for jobs related to law enforcement, national security and classified information. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Lawmakers push to stop federal employers from asking about criminal history until end of job interview

Kelly Cohen · April 6, 2017 5:05 pm

Private-sector forecasters had expected claims to decline slightly after being driven higher the past two weeks by big snowstorms on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Jobless claims drop to 234,000, second-lowest in decades

Joseph Lawler · April 6, 2017 12:31 pm