Tag: Labor

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center rear, speaks with other EU heads of state during an EU summit in Brussels. As chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel may be the most powerful politician in the European Union, but she is more mirage than reality when it gets to the place of women in EU politics. EU leaders meet on Saturday to divide top jobs for the next five years, and after years of paying lip service to more equality among the sexes, it is plain for all to see, where are the women? (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File )

EU struggles with dearth of women in top jobs

Raf Casert · August 28, 2014 5:22 pm

Revealing that Big Labor leaders have been meeting privately with President Obama on a possible immigration executive action just as Big Business leaders have, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged the White House to be aggressive and make broad, expansive policy. (Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor)

AFL-CIO chief urges Obama to be bold on immigration executive action

Sean Higgins · August 28, 2014 4:11 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, Jessica Pimentel, of Hollywood, Fla., fills out a job application during a job fair in Sunrise. Fla. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Applications for US unemployment aid slip to 298K

Christopher Rugaber · August 28, 2014 1:18 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 filepicture a worker closes a Germanwings passenger jet at the airport in Cologne, Germany. A German union representing pilots says it is planning a new round of strikes in a long-running dispute over wages and early retirement benefits. The Vereinigung Cockpit union says in a statement it will order pilots of Germanwings, a subsidiary of Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa, to go on strike Friday if further negotiations on Thursday fail to achieve their goals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Germanwings pilots to go on strike Friday

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 1:07 pm

McDonald's Corp. has no way to appeal the federal government's decision that it is liable for legal complaints at its franchised restaurants, industry experts say. That's because there is no decision to appeal -- at least no official one. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

McDonald’s can’t appeal NLRB franchise decision

Sean Higgins · August 28, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, container ships wait to be off-loaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. West Coast dockworkers and their employers say they have reached a tentative agreement on the difficult issue of health care, a major hurdle in contract negotiations at the ports that are vital to U.S. trade. In a joint statement Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014 announcing the tentative deal, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and an association representing shipping lines said it depended on resolving other issues. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Deal on health care aids port contract talks

Justin Pritchard · August 27, 2014 11:43 pm

Riot police cordon off protesters partially blocking one of Buenos Aires' main access routes over the Riachuelo River in Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. CTA, a union umbrella group that opposes the government, started a 36-hour strike to demand more jobs, better salaries and tax cuts on salaries. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Labor protest disrupts Argentine capital

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 10:11 pm

Panel faults safety practices at Metro-North

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 8:16 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. On July 30, 2014, Cantwell, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, introduced legislation that would make it easier for women-owned companies to get loans and government contracts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Cantwell targets small business loan gender gap

Joyce Rosenberg · August 27, 2014 2:12 pm

Market Basket worker files federal labor complaint

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 12:43 pm

Anti-UAW workers to form own union at VW plant

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 8:02 am

State of Michigan to host latest virtual job fair

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 8:01 am