Tag: Labor

AFL-CIO President Richard TrumkaÂ praised President Obama's executive order on immigration, saying the president was acting within his authority to better the nation's "moral and economic interests."Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

AFL-CIO to hold minimum wage events in key primary states

Sean Higgins · January 7, 2015 6:47 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks about raising wages during the forum AFL-CIO National Summit, Wednesday at Gallaudet University in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Warren: Raising minimum wage is ‘personal’

Sean Higgins · January 7, 2015 5:37 pm

Labor Secretary Tom Perez told a House panel Wednesday that the White House's proposed new overtime rule would be released sometime in the next few months. (AP Photo)

Labor secretary: Raising minimum wage a religious imperative

Sean Higgins · January 7, 2015 4:42 pm

Warren has been an advocate of raising the wage and addressing wage inequality in general. (J. Scott Applewhite)

Top Democrats pushing minimum wage hike

Sean Higgins · January 7, 2015 10:00 am

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Business groups sue labor board over speedy union election rule

Sean Higgins · January 6, 2015 5:39 pm

Class action asks for overtime wages for more than 1,000 CVS pharmacists

Jim Boyle · January 6, 2015 4:43 pm

Cap-and-trade programs kill manufacturing jobs, according to new research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Beltway Confidential

Study: Cap-and-trade kills jobs

Jason Russell · January 5, 2015 6:24 pm

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FMCS pays $300k in salaries for barely-used press office

Luke Rosiak · January 3, 2015 10:00 am

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's social action director, told the Washington Examiner that colleges and universities were now part of the "front lines" in the struggle against anti-Semitism. (iStock)

Anti-Semitism rising in academia, group warns

Sean Higgins · January 1, 2015 9:24 pm

Jobless claims rise to 298,000

Joseph Lawler · December 31, 2014 1:49 pm

National Security

UAW teachers branch joins boycott of Israel

Sean Higgins · December 31, 2014 10:00 am

Voters in five states -- Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota -- approved raising their minimum higher than the federal floor through ballot measures in 2014, while lawmakers in Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia voted to raise theirs. (iStock)

Obama administration praises state minimum wage increases

Sean Higgins · December 30, 2014 5:17 pm