Tag: Labor

This undated photo provided by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) shows its President and CEO, Pamela Prince-Eason. Prince-Eason sees progress in getting corporate and government contracting officers to work with women-owned businesses, but there's still much work to be done. (AP Photo/WBENC)

Want contracts? Work harder, women’s org. CEO says

Joyce Rosenberg · July 9, 2014 3:00 pm

Teachers participate in an education budget cut rally and protest at Pershing Square on May 13, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Has teacher tenure driven a wedge between California Democrats and Big Labor?

Sean Higgins · July 9, 2014 10:00 am

Police nearing contract amid Detroit bankruptcy

Police nearing contract amid Detroit bankruptcy

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 9:40 am

Members of the Teamsters Union picket at LBCT in the Port of Long Beach, Calif., in support of a strike by port truck drivers Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Nearly 1,000 dockworkers briefly walked off their jobs Tuesday at the massive ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, disrupting the movement of international cargo before a mediator ordered them back. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Stephen Carr)

Labor dispute briefly shuts LA, Long Beach ports

Justin Pritchard · July 9, 2014 3:31 am

FILE - This Oct. 2, 2013, file photo shows part of the Johns Hopkins Hospital complex in Baltimore. The hospital has reached a tentative labor agreement with a union representing about 2,000 workers at the medical institution. A Hopkins spokeswoman said Tuesday, July 8, 2014, that a union vote will take place over the next couple of days on the tentative agreement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Johns Hopkins, union reach tentative labor pact

Juliet Linderman · July 8, 2014 7:06 pm

Survey finds math, science grads earn top dollar

Survey finds math, science grads earn top dollar

Anne Flaherty · July 8, 2014 5:12 pm

In this Thursday, June 12, 2014 photo, Desirae Gooch, left, fills out an application for a nurse's assistant job, alongside other job seekers filling out applications at the Cleveland Career Fair in Independence, Ohio. The Labor Department issues its May report on job openings and labor turnover on Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

US companies post most jobs in 7 years in May

Christopher Rugaber · July 8, 2014 2:42 pm

EXography: Employment keeps sagging in the Obama recovery

EXography: Employment keeps sagging in the Obama recovery

David Freddoso · July 8, 2014 9:00 am

Truck drivers and supporters picket outside the offices of Green Fleet Systems in Carson, Calif., on Monday, July 7, 2014. The truckers say the companies have prevented them from unionizing and improperly classified them as contractors, rather than full-time employees, to minimize wages and benefits. (AP Photo/Matt Hamilton)

Truckers strike at Los Angeles, Long Beach ports

Justin Pritchard · July 8, 2014 2:29 am

About the best thing that Big Labor can say about the recently concluded Supreme Court term is that it could have been much worse for them. (iStock)

Big Labor’s big problems with the Supreme Court

Sean Higgins · July 7, 2014 9:47 pm

VIDEO: Advocates call Obama education initiative a ‘good first step’

Ed Sykes · July 7, 2014 9:28 pm

Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks about education, Monday, July 7, 2014, during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. The nation's largest teachers' union wants Duncan to quit. Delegates of the National Education Association adopted a business item July 4 at its annual convention in Denver that called for his resignation. The vote underscores the long standing tension between the Obama administration and teachers' unions _ historically a steadfast Democratic ally. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

NEA wants Duncan’s resignation

Kimberly Hefling · July 7, 2014 4:59 pm