Tag: Labor

This Black Friday, economic reality is putting additional pressures on both the consumer and the worker. The former feels pressure to get something cheap; the latter has little choice but to forgo travel and work over the holiday. (Getty File image/Spencer Platt)

Black Friday marks another grim year of wage stagnation

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2014 10:00 am

The union-backed group OUR Walmart said Friday its largest protests against the retailer on the day after Thanksgiving will occur at 10 locations nationally. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Ignore Black Friday protests: Walmart pays high wages

Jason Russell · November 27, 2014 10:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Innovative idea leads to $10,000 college degree option

Ashley Dobson · November 26, 2014 4:08 pm

Job seekers fill out job applications at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. (AP/Alan Diaz)

Unemployment claims jump to 313,000

Justin Green · November 26, 2014 2:49 pm

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HUD fires almost no one, not because its workers are stellar

Luke Rosiak · November 26, 2014 2:00 pm

A large gathering protests against Wal-Mart on Black Friday, Nov 23, 2012, in Secaucus, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Walmart protest will include 50 DC-area employees

Sean Higgins · November 25, 2014 11:34 pm

Four Environmental Protection Agency employees have been on paid administrative leave for more than a year. (iStock Photo)

Legions of federal workers on paid leave for months

Luke Rosiak · November 25, 2014 7:10 pm

Government workers at the federal, state and local level all enjoy more job security than their private sector counterparts. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Government workers are harder to fire than private ones

Jason Russell · November 25, 2014 5:40 pm

Obama's actions not only usurp powers that aren't his, they don't really solve key immigration problems. (AP Photo)

What about the Brainiacs?

Lawrence Kudlow · November 22, 2014 9:14 pm

The union-backed group OUR Walmart said Friday its largest protests against the retailer on the day after Thanksgiving will occur at 10 locations nationally. (AP Photo)

Anti-Walmart group plans ‘largest’ Black Friday protests at 10 locations

Sean Higgins · November 21, 2014 6:37 pm

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)

Unions say immigration announcement a ‘big step forward’

Sean Higgins · November 20, 2014 11:00 pm

Obama's actions not only usurp powers that aren't his, they don't really solve key immigration problems. (AP Photo)

Obama to allow spouses of high-tech immigrant visa holders to work

Sean Higgins · November 20, 2014 10:39 pm