Tag: Labor

MIAMI, FL - MARCH 20: Union members and community activists protest outside Miami Dade College, whereÂ U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob LewÂ was speaking. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Liberal groups rejecting White House’s trade push

Sean Higgins · April 20, 2015 8:01 pm

New National Labor Relations Board guidance on permissible workplace speech by company owners and managers is causing confusion among bosses, represented here on the left by U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donahue, and workers for whom AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka would like to speak.Â

Aggressive new federal labor rules on employee speech leave companies baffled

Sean Higgins · April 19, 2015 9:00 am

Rick Santorum argues that such a small percentage of Americans actually make the minimum wage. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Will Rick Santorum be the only GOP 2016 candidate to support raising the minimum wage?

Byron York · April 16, 2015 9:03 am

People march as they protest for increased minimum wages near a McDonald's restaurant on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in the Little Havana area in Miami. Activists, fast-food workers and others are calling for increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour and allowing workers to form unions without corporate opposition, as part of nationwide demonstrations. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Unions promise whopper of a fast-food protest

Sean Higgins · April 15, 2015 9:00 am

Reporters and photographers try to get a glimpse of Congressional leaders as they arrive at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the fiscal cliff. Two of the five worst jobs of the year involve journalism: broadcaster and newspaper reporter, according to a new report from CareerCast.com. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Where to work — or not — in America in 2015

Kelly Cohen · April 14, 2015 7:54 pm

While the National Labor Relations Board has five members, the person leading the charge is its general counsel, Richard Griffin.

NLRB’s Griffin pushes the envelope in labor law

Sean Higgins · April 13, 2015 9:00 am

An unemployed man looks over job listings on a board at a New York State Department of Labor Employment Services office March 3, 2011 in Brooklyn Borough of New York City. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Will 2016 really be a foreign policy election?

Byron York · April 9, 2015 11:28 pm

Kan. AG wants D.C. Circuit to reverse DOL regulations

LocalLabs News Service · April 9, 2015 8:51 pm

Liberal anger lingers after Rahm’s victory in Chicago

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2015 12:17 am

Lauren McGarity McFerran was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday to be the newest member of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. (AP Photo)

Agency’s union ‘speedy election’ rule has no firm deadlines

Sean Higgins · April 7, 2015 5:57 pm

"Especially with this crazy political atmosphere, this is a place where we need to be lending support to middle-of-the-road Democrats and Republicans both, and this is part of that effort," Jeffrey Soth, the Operating Engineers' political director, told National Journal last year. (AP Photo)

GOP group’s super PAC mostly funded by unions

Sean Higgins · April 6, 2015 9:00 am

The Labor Department's numbers show that the labor force also shrank by 96,000 in March, placing labor participation at a 36-year low. (AP Photo)

Obama’s lousy economy lingers longer

Washington Examiner · April 6, 2015 9:00 am