Tag: Labor

Obama to sign orders protecting gay employees

Obama to sign orders protecting gay employees

Nedra Pickler · July 18, 2014 7:47 pm

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, shake hands in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a tentative labor agreement was reached at Cuomo's office in New York on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Strike threat plays to Cuomo’s image as pragmatist

DAVID KLEPPERRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 18, 2014 1:50 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 16, 2014, job seeker U.S. Air Force veteran Jimmie Walker, left, listens to job recruiter Desiree Akel, at a Hiring Fair For Veterans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Labor Department reports the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

US unemployment aid applications drop to 302,000

Josh Boak · July 18, 2014 2:01 am

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, shake hands in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a tentative labor agreement was reached at Cuomo's office in New York on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Strike by NY commuter rail workers averted

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 18, 2014 1:29 am

Railroad deal relief for vacation-bound NY mayor

Jennifer Peltz · July 17, 2014 10:43 pm

Ex-Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has a history of bending the rules

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Ex-Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has a history of bending the rules

Sean Higgins · July 17, 2014 8:35 pm

New Jersey bottle maker to close, cutting 290 jobs

New Jersey bottle maker to close, cutting 290 jobs

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 1:26 pm

Anthony Simon, left, lead union negotiator for Long Island Rail Road Union, and union representative Dean Devita, speak during a news conference Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in New York. Shortly after Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an appeal Wednesday for the sides to resume talking, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the Long Island Rail Road, invited union negotiators to resume talks and union officials accepted. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Union: We’ll keep talking to avoid NY rail strike

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 17, 2014 2:56 am

Cuomo: Rail strike would hold commuters ‘hostage’

Cuomo: Rail strike would hold commuters ‘hostage’

David Klepper · July 16, 2014 8:56 pm

FILE - Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Jacqueline Berrien speaks at a Middle Class Task Force event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington, in this Tuesday, July 20, 2010 file photo. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has updated 30-year-old guidelines to make clear that any form of workplace discrimination or harassment against pregnant workers by employers is a form of sex discrimination and illegal. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

New guidelines could help many pregnant workers

Tom Raum · July 16, 2014 11:43 am

Labor Department grant to assist unemployed

Labor Department grant to assist unemployed

Washington Examiner · July 16, 2014 8:01 am

Pedestrians wait to ride a train at Jamaica station on the Long Island Rail Road Tuesday, July 15, 2014, in New York. Prospects of a strike which the unions said they were planning at 12:01 a.m. next Sunday, would affect 300,000 daily riders who travel in and out of New York City from Long Island. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Anxiety grows as possible NY rail strike nears

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 15, 2014 7:48 pm