Tag: Labor

Vice President Joe Biden joins Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti during a roundtable discussion with business leaders about the importance of raising the minimum wage in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Biden is on a six-city swing that includes stops in Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington state. (AP PhotoNick Ut)

Joe Biden pushes minimum wage in Los Angeles

Michael Blood · October 7, 2014 8:08 pm

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Taxpayers spend $157m for union work

Sean Higgins · October 7, 2014 7:28 pm

More than 300 union members and their families from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia gathered at the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters Tuesday to protests a proposal to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants that they said would kill jobs in Appalachia.Â (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Unions protest EPA power plant proposal

Zack Colman · October 7, 2014 6:56 pm

In this Oct. 1, 2014 photo, Matt Fahr, left, sales manager with the Charlotte Hornets, speaks with High Point University freshman, Kule Kubanka, about career opportunities, during a career day at the Slane Student Center in Haigh Point, N.C. The Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover survey for August on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Laura Greene)

US job openings rising in August as hiring falls

Josh Boak · October 7, 2014 3:46 pm

Job openings rise to highest level since 2001

Joseph Lawler · October 7, 2014 2:41 pm

Energy and Environment

Coal union plans rally outside EPA headquarters

Washington Examiner · October 7, 2014 7:18 am

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Beltway Confidential

The White House discriminates against part-time workers and the unemployed

Becket Adams · October 6, 2014 8:31 pm

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Teacher indoctrination

Walter Williams · October 6, 2014 3:28 pm

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GOP sharpens knives to cut political spending by labor

Sean Higgins · October 6, 2014 9:00 am

An estimated 49 million Americans depend upon $2.7 trillion in employee benefit pension plan assets that either aren't fully audited or get a meaningless annual certification of their value, according to the Department of Labor inspector general. (iStock)

Trillions in pension plan assets can’t be verified, Labor Department IG reports

Mark Tapscott · October 5, 2014 6:00 pm

A woman holding up a sheet of paper with the face of the Portuguese Education Minister Nuno Crato, shouts slogans during a protest by Portuguese teachers in Lisbon, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. Seven teachers' trade unions organised the march Sunday to protest the government's education policies. Sign reads in Portuguese: "justice waits for you" (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Portuguese teachers protest austerity cuts

Washington Examiner · October 5, 2014 4:14 pm

In this Sept. 17, 2014 photo, Andy Gause breads shrimp in the kitchen of the Calabash Seafood Hut in Calabash, N.C. The Institute for Supply Management releases its service sector index for September on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/The Star-News, Matt Born) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

US service firms grew at healthy clip in September

Martin Crutsinger · October 3, 2014 2:46 pm