Tag: Labor

Liberal and conservative groups squared off Tuesday in battle to define the public image of Donald Trump's nominee to be labor secretary, fast-food businessman Andrew Puzder. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News)

Right, Left fight to define image of Labor pick Puzder

Sean Higgins · January 10, 2017 10:23 pm

Based on the same July 2016 Census estimates, 161,773,444 Americans live in a right-to-work state. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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As of today, a majority of Americans live under right-to-work laws

David Freddoso · January 9, 2017 8:34 pm

Teachers union: Trump education nominee out to ‘undermine public schools’

Sean Higgins · January 9, 2017 6:19 pm

Right-to-work laws prohibit contracts between unions and management that force all workers to join the union or at least pay it a regular fee. Workers have no choice: They pay or are fired. (Russell Lissau/Daily Herald via AP)

Right-to-work laws pick up steam nationwide

Sean Higgins · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

"We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics," Mark Cuban wrote in a December blog post. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Donald Trump and Mark Cuban see promise in job-killing robots

Daniel Chaitin · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Price’s Cabinet nomination complicates GOP labor reform

Sean Higgins · January 8, 2017 7:04 am

The final vote total shows the passage of Kentucky House Bill 1 in the Kentucky Senate, making it illegal for workers to have to join a labor union or pay dues to keep a job. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Lawmakers vote to make Kentucky 27th right-to-work state

John Siciliano · January 7, 2017 7:29 pm

Township north of Cincinnati would be the first in Ohio to enact the anti-union measure. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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States with right-to-work laws and no income taxes grew fastest in the Obama years

Michael Barone · January 7, 2017 1:03 am

Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin hopes his state becomes the 27th to pass right-to-work legislation in the U.S. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Kentucky could be a right-to-work state by next week

David Freddoso · January 6, 2017 1:00 pm

Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has called signing a right-to-work bill one of his "top priorities" as governor. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Kentucky set to pass right-to-work bill

Sean Higgins · January 5, 2017 10:08 pm

Pension costs have long been the unsung villain behind many states' and municipalities' fiscal problems. In California and other states, they have been exacerbated by politically motivated investment decisions and anemic annual returns compared to both the market and their over-optimistic projections. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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Courts giving California the green light for needed pension reforms

David Freddoso · January 5, 2017 8:22 pm

Private-sector forecasters had projected about 260,000 new claims. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims plummet to 235,000 to end 2016

Joseph Lawler · January 5, 2017 1:32 pm