Tag: Labor

Ford wants "improve the profitability of our small-car lineup," said Joe Hinrichs, its president of the Americas. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

UAW slams Ford’s plan for Mexican plant

Keith Naughton · April 5, 2016 7:11 pm

Clinton, Sanders to woo Pa. labor leaders

Jane Von · April 5, 2016 6:51 pm

Alpha Natural Resources bought Massey shortly after an explosion killed 29 miners. (AP Photo/John Raby)

Energy and Environment

Former coal CEO won’t pay restitution for mine explosion

John Siciliano · April 5, 2016 5:59 pm

A spokesman with the Federal Protective Service said authorities are still investigating how the unidentified man was able to break in to the federal facility. (AP Photo)

Is the cat burglar a nerd?

Anna Giaritelli · April 4, 2016 10:04 pm

The case involved decisions by Pennsylvania state courts that upheld the judgment in a lawsuit involving 187,000 Walmart employees and said they were denied paid rest breaks and ordered to work —œoff the clock.—? (AP Photo)

Supreme Court deals Walmart a blow in class-action case

Sean Higgins · April 4, 2016 6:31 pm

Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington are among the states with active "Fight for $15" efforts. (AP Photo)

$15 minimum wage activists eye more states

David Klepper, Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press · April 4, 2016 5:29 pm

Menards has been improperly requiring employees to sign mandatory-arbitration agreements, and has withheld merit pay raises for workers engaged in protected activities, according to the NLRB. (Wikimedia Commons)

Retailer violates labor laws, labor board says

milwaukee-journal, rick-romell · April 4, 2016 5:10 pm

Two lawmakers say a federally owned company that uses prison labor should not have first crack at federal contracts. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Fed-owned prison labor company has unfair advantage, lawmakers say

Sean Higgins · April 4, 2016 4:01 am

State lawmakers had not appropriated the money for the promised pay raises. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Court: Illinois workers not owed raises

Associated Press, John O'connor · April 1, 2016 6:15 pm

March's job growth beat the expectations of economists, which were for 210,000 new payroll jobs, according to a survey conducted by Bloomberg. (Jessica Reilly/Telegraph Herald via AP, File)

March beats expectations with 215,000 new jobs, unemployment 5 percent

Joseph Lawler · April 1, 2016 12:31 pm

"At the end of the day I think this [one-day strike] hurts kids," one teacher told DNAinfo Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Beltway Confidential

Chicago Teachers Union walks out on students

Jason Russell · April 1, 2016 12:00 pm

The union's game plan is straightforward. Walk out. Kids go untaught. Parents grow angry. Publicity rolls in. The bureaucracy can't respond fast enough. Political leaders cave. The union wins at taxpayers' and students' expense. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

April Fools’ Day for the Chicago teachers’ union

Kristina Rasmussen · April 1, 2016 4:02 am