Tag: Labor

There's no evidence that older people take away jobs from the young. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Will surge of older workers take jobs from young?

Associated Press · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Seattle mayor says city will pay workers $15 minimum wage

Washington Examiner · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Boeing machinists holding their completed ballots head to their polling place at a union hall on Friday in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Boeing machinists OK contract tied to 777X

Associated Press · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Richard Mattos, 59, looks for jobs at a state-run employment center in Salem, Ore., on Dec. 26. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)

Obama to meet with those who lost unemployment benefits

Brian Hughes · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

The rule, which the NLRB adopted in 2011, would have required all businesses to prominently place posters in the workplace explaining workers' rights to join a union. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

NLRB signals defeat on workplace poster rule

Sean Higgins · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

Dems’ progressive push: Banner year or pipe dream?

Dems’ progressive push: Banner year or pipe dream?

Brian Hughes · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

A small group of machinists union members rally in favor of voting onÃÂ Boeing'sÃÂ last contract offer in front of the machinists' union hall Dec. 18 in Everett, Wash. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

Boeing not bluffing, Seattle union says

Sean Higgins · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Tom Buffenbarger, the president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who has forced a vote on a pension-freezing Boeing contract proposal, once called those retirement plans sacred and derided alternatives as risky. (AP Photo/Ron Wurzer)

Machinists chief once called pensions ‘sacred’

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Jona Caldwell joins a long line of job seekers outside the Ferguson Community Center in Cordova, Tenn. (AP/Jim Weber)

Weekly US unemployment benefit claims fall to 339,000

Christopher Rugaber · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

White House economist Gene Sperling says restoring the benefits would lead to the creation of 200,000 jobs and economic growth. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

White House calls for passage of jobless benefits

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama speaks during his end-of-the-year news conference in the Brady Press Room at the White House in Washington on Dec. 20. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Focusing on inflation-adjusted minimum wage is misguided

Philip Klein · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Labor Department awards nearly $1 million to promote workplace gender equality in Morocco

Ashe Schow · January 2, 2014 5:00 am