Tag: Labor

Clarification: Fast Food Workers-Convention story

Clarification: Fast Food Workers-Convention story

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 8:55 pm

Gov. Quinn to live off equivalent of minimum wage

Gov. Quinn to live off equivalent of minimum wage

Michael Tarm · July 27, 2014 9:53 pm

Boeing CEO sorry for ‘cowering’ workers remark

Washington Examiner · July 26, 2014 11:57 pm

In this Friday, July 18, 2014 photo, Barb Allen leans on the railing of her front porch in Champion, Ohio. The 50-year-old Allen has been employed, laid off, re-employed and jobless in a single year's span, illustrating the complicated nature of jobs statistics.(AP Photo)

Ohio adds 244K jobs under John Kasich; recovery slow

JULIE CARR SMYTH · July 26, 2014 7:44 pm

Northern Illinois county considers hiring freeze

Northern Illinois county considers hiring freeze

Washington Examiner · July 26, 2014 8:02 am

Shoppers encounter empty shelves as they shop Thursday, July 24, 2014 at the Market Basket supermarket in Haverhill, Mass. A decades-long family feud, which brought about the ouster of Arthur T. Demoulas as CEO of the privately held company, led to a worker revolt, customer boycotts and empty shelves in the grocery chain's stores in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. More than 100 Massachusetts legislators and mayors, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan have publicly supported the employees. (AP Photo)

Family feud sparks revolt at grocery store chain

Denise Lavoie · July 26, 2014 12:55 am

Fast food workers prepare to escalate wage demands

Washington Examiner · July 25, 2014 9:51 pm

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller askedÃÂ Lake County Circuit Court Special Judge George Paras to stay his ruling on right-to-work laws in the state, but the judge declined. (AP/Darron Cummings)

Beltway Confidential

Second judge rules against Indiana right-to-work law

Sean Higgins · July 25, 2014 6:26 pm

Job seekers check out the job opportunities at a Hiring Fair in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP/Alan Diaz)

The evidence that the long-term unemployed are finding jobs, not just giving up the job hunt

Joseph Lawler · July 25, 2014 4:58 pm

Michigan Elections Director Chris Thomas shows members of the Board of State Canvassers petition signatures his staff checked before determining that a group proposing to raise the minimum wage fell short of the signatures needed to put its proposal before the Legislature and possibly a statewide vote, at the state Capitol on Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Lansing, Mich. The board voted 3-1 not to certify the measure. (AP Photo)

No Michigan vote allowed on raising minimum wage

Washington Examiner · July 25, 2014 12:31 am

In a case involving a Macy's department store cosmetics counter, the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday further expanded its recent precedents allowing for so-called "micro-unions."ÃÂ (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Beltway Confidential

NLRB ruling further expands ‘micro unions’

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2014 9:32 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 16, 2014, job seeker U.S. Army veteran John Godman, right, talks to recruiters Nicole Rushton, left, and Megan Hogan, center, at a Hiring Fair For Veterans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday, July 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Across US job market, layoffs are becoming rare

The Associated Press · July 24, 2014 7:37 pm