Tag: Labor

Organizers of march for $15 wage link up with Black Lives Matter, liken opponents to backers of slavery. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Union seeks to make $15 minimum wage a race issue

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 8:56 pm

Participants in march to raise the wage either don't believe evidence it kills jobs or don't care. (Sean Higgins/Washington Examiner)

Activists dismiss drawbacks of $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 8:48 pm

No one can say with certainly what such a massive increase in the rate would mean for the economy. There is no precedent for an increase that high, liberal and conservative economists say. (AP Photo)

Early data show $15 minimum hurting Seattle’s poor

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 4:01 am

The protesters claimed they were being denied union rights by the Service Employees International Union, the primary funder and organizer of the Fight for $15, the leading activist group in the minimum wage hike movement. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Union protested by its own minimum wage organizers

Sean Higgins · August 13, 2016 4:01 am

SEIU isn't just a supporter of the cause. It is largely the reason why the $15 minimum wage movement is on the national agenda. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Major labor union behind push for $15 minimum

Sean Higgins · August 12, 2016 4:01 am

"The next year-and-a-half must be founded upon building our capacity to strike, and our capacity to create a state crisis, in early 2018," said Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Phuong Le)

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California teachers’ unions ready to create chaos

Jason Russell · August 11, 2016 6:33 pm

The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits the week before. Economists had expected a tick in jobless claims up to 265,000. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims on best hot streak since 1970

Joseph Lawler · August 11, 2016 12:31 pm

Construction companies keep on advertising new jobs, but hiring has hardly budged during the recovery, new figures show. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

The situation in the construction industry is unsustainable

Joseph Lawler · August 10, 2016 3:10 pm

The nation's unemployment rate remained stuck to 4.9 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

255,000 jobs added in July

Sean Higgins · August 5, 2016 12:51 pm

Iran executed a gay teenager this year after he was of convicted of the rape of another boy as a juvenile, in the first confirmed execution of an offender under the age of 18 in the country, according to a global NGO. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Iran confirms execution of gay teen

Kelly Cohen · August 4, 2016 6:45 pm

Why Trump is Failing the White Working Class

Daniel Wiser · August 3, 2016 12:01 pm

Weil said the agreement serves the purpose of both Subway and the Labor Department. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Subway in deal with Labor Dept. to enforce wage, labor laws

Pete Kasperowicz · August 2, 2016 4:00 pm