Tag: Labor

A city office employee works into the night as darkness closes in on October 10, 2005 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

‘Minimal efforts’ made by Labor Department to get money owed to employees

Ethan Barton · April 4, 2015 9:00 am

The Ambivalent Economy

Irwin M. Stelzer · April 4, 2015 3:01 am

The Labor Department inspector general reported Thursday that officials there failed to post descriptions of five of the most expensive conferences on the agency's website, as they were required to do by a 2011 presidential executive order. (iStock Photo)

Labor Department officials missed reporting deadlines for employee conferences

Ethan Barton · April 3, 2015 6:55 pm

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March job gains disappoint at 126,000, unemployment steady at 5.5 percent

Joseph Lawler · April 3, 2015 12:34 pm

Jobless claims plunge to 268,000, near lowest levels since 2000

Joseph Lawler · April 2, 2015 12:49 pm

The money primarily went to nonprofit groups and public relations firms with the aim of making the effort look like an organic, grassroots movement.

Union spent $23 million last year on higher minimum wage push

Sean Higgins · April 2, 2015 9:00 am

A judge said the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2189 violated federal rules and its own constitution to deny membership to Jonathan Jarman. (Screenshot)

Union can’t refuse membership to former rival labor leader

Luke Rosiak · April 1, 2015 2:29 pm

This was the second veto Obama has issued since Republicans took control of the Senate in January and the fourth of his tenure. (AP Photo)Â

Obama vetoes GOP bill to stop union election rules

Joseph Lawler · March 31, 2015 5:05 pm

The federal government has said in a major, closely watched lawsuit that McDonald's Corp. violated workers' union rights at its individual franchise restaurants. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)

Feds refusing to show cards in McDonald’s case

Sean Higgins · March 31, 2015 9:00 am

The Senate voted down a budget amendment calling for a "substantial increase" in the federal minimum wage Thursday. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Senate votes down federal minimum wage hike

Jason Russell · March 30, 2015 4:37 pm

Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Employee Rights Act reforms are long overdue

Washington Examiner · March 30, 2015 11:20 am

Protesters participate in a display of civil disobedience as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

U.S. signed agreement with Mexico to teach immigrants to unionize

Sean Higgins · March 30, 2015 9:00 am