Tag: Labor

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks to protesters prior to a 'Don't Trade Our Future' march organized by the group Campaign for America's Future on April 20, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Union chief gives Clinton an ultimatum on trade

Sean Higgins · April 28, 2015 3:48 pm

"The manufacturing-type jobs that once were the foundation of the U.S. labor movement have shriveled in both absolute and percentage terms," according to aÂ new Pew Research Center analysis. (AP Photo)

Washington Secrets

Unions membership plummets to 11% of workforce

Paul Bedard · April 28, 2015 8:27 am

Scott Walker Versus the Wall St. Journal on Immigration

Jeffrey H. Anderson · April 27, 2015 12:27 pm

Businesses are saying that they are having more trouble finding qualified workers. (iStock Photo)

Wanted: Qualified workers

Joseph Lawler · April 27, 2015 9:00 am

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during a meeting with area Republicans, Sunday, April 19, 2015, in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Walker talks up religious background in Iowa

Sean Higgins · April 25, 2015 9:22 pm

The hearing concerned legislation called the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, which wouldÂ limit the legal definitionÂ of a joint employer to two or more businesses that have "actual, direct andÂ immediate control" over a groupÂ of workers. (AP Photo)Â

Federal labor panel tells Kentucky court to scrap local right-to-work laws

Sean Higgins · April 25, 2015 4:35 pm

Immigration roils debate on trade measures

Sean Higgins · April 24, 2015 9:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Dem. congressman exaggerates income inequality issue

Jason Russell · April 23, 2015 11:00 pm

President Obama and Hillary Clinton exchanged emails when the former secretary of state relied exclusively on a private account, the White House said Monday. (AP Photo)

Obama admin: No ‘distance’ from Hillary on trade

Brian Hughes · April 22, 2015 5:50 pm

Obama is losing his greatest asset in immigration push

Brian Hughes · April 21, 2015 9:00 am

The hearing concerned legislation called the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, which wouldÂ limit the legal definitionÂ of a joint employer to two or more businesses that have "actual, direct andÂ immediate control" over a groupÂ of workers. (AP Photo)Â

NLRB may chip away at right-to-work laws

Sean Higgins · April 21, 2015 9:00 am

The authors of the Hamilton Project write that workers without bachelor's degrees "have been movingÂ away from traditional, blue-collar, middle-paying jobs...to lower-paying service jobs." (AP Photo)Â

Men without college degrees doing worse than in 1990

Joseph Lawler · April 20, 2015 9:45 pm