Tag: Labor

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Beltway Confidential

How teachers’ unions are responding to Trump’s education speech

Jason Russell · September 8, 2016 9:50 pm

Economists had expected jobless claims, which are adjusted for seasonal variation, to tick up to 265,000. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Jobless claims fall even lower to 259,000

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2016 12:32 pm

The agency helped Walmart's 2011 effortsto buy a South African retailer despite local unions' opposition. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Emails detail State Dept. effort under Clinton to aid Walmart

Sean Higgins · September 8, 2016 4:01 am

Major Blow to Big Labor–Is Their Power Fading?

TWS Podcast · September 7, 2016 10:03 pm

Hillary Clinton has sought to distance herself from Walmart's Walton family in recent years and has returned donations from the company in the past after they became controversial. (AP Photo)

Walmart’s Walton family backing Clinton

Sean Higgins · September 7, 2016 9:56 pm

For the past year, Albuquerque, N.M., has been experimenting with a pilot jobs program for its homeless population called "There's a Better Way."

Albuquerque experiments with job guarantees

Washington Examiner Staff · September 6, 2016 4:01 am

National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Portland, Ore., Monday, May 18, 2015, about the organization's concerns over the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that President Obama is pushing. He just became a grandfather. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Washington Secrets

AFL-CIO’s Trumka welcomes 5th generation to unions

Paul Bedard · September 5, 2016 5:34 pm

President Obama warned Americans in his weekly message Saturday that falling membership in labor unions could hurt workers in the future. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

Obama: Drop in union membership hurts workers

Anna Giaritelli · September 3, 2016 12:00 pm

Rep. Bradley Bryne, a first-term member from Alabama, talked about those down on their luck in his district. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP’s Labor Day message for the jobless, homeless

Anna Giaritelli · September 3, 2016 3:26 am

The underemployment rate was unchanged in August, at 9.7 percent of the workforce. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Jobs report shows progress on underemployment has stalled out

Joseph Lawler · September 2, 2016 3:14 pm

Private sector economists had expected job growth, which is adjusted for seasonal variations, to cool off to around 175,000 after a very strong mark of 255,000 in July. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Job growth falls just shy of expectations in August at 151,000, unemployment holds at 4.9 percent

Joseph Lawler · September 2, 2016 12:31 pm

"We have to give him his props and the department its props," said Lee Saunders, President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Union leaders praise Obama administration

Sean Higgins · September 1, 2016 8:23 pm