Tag: Labor

Worker rights bills inspire rally in Md.

Worker rights bills inspire rally in Md.

Washington Examiner · February 25, 2014 1:57 am

Dependence Day

Jay Cost · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

$A program to help jobless veterans has found employment for a fraction of eligible workers since its launch two years ago. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)$

Connecticut jobs program for veterans helping few find work

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama is taking his "year of action" tour to Minnesota, heading to St. Paul on Wednesday to announce a new competition encouraging investments to create jobs and restore infrastructure. (AP Photo)

Obama to take ‘year of action’ to Minnesota

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of the United States' most prosperous and largest cities.

Wealth gap is widest in some affluent U.S. cities

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

The federal government shutdown last year delayed more than 37,000 immigration hearings by months or years for immigrants already waiting in lengthy lines to plead for asylum or green cards.

Government shutdown hurt 37,000 immigrant cases

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker signed an executive order last week raising the minimum wage for tribal employees to $9.50 over the next two years. (AP Photo/David Crenshaw)

Cherokee Nation raising minimum wage

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Kristol: Conservatives Should Be Serious About Making Work Pay

Kristol: Conservatives Should Be Serious About Making Work Pay

Daniel Halper · February 23, 2014 4:02 pm

United Auto Workers President Bob King, left, and Dennis Williams, now secretary-treasurer for the union, discuss the union's 712-626 defeat in an election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

UAW official says union remains financially strong

Associated Press · February 22, 2014 5:00 am

United Auto Workers President Bob King discusses the union's defeat in an election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Beltway Confidential

UAW calls on NLRB to void defeat at Chattanooga VW plant, order new election

Sean Higgins · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

Democrats hope to play âoffenseâ with the GOP by distracting voter attention from Obamacare and focusing it on âincome inequality." (Photo: Thinkstock)

Midterm elections shape congressional agenda

Susan Ferrechio · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

Employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., work on a Passat sedan. (AP/Erik Schelzig)

UAW loss in Tennessee proves that unions can’t win

Linda Chavez · February 21, 2014 5:00 am