Tag: Sean Higgins

Google just didn't want the bad publicity of having someone with such ideas on their payroll. (iStock by Getty Images)

Fired Google engineer James Damore may have NLRB case

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2017 9:56 pm

Harvard economist George Borjas is immigration critics' favorite intellectual. His work is regularly cited by the White House, top Republican lawmakers, and conservative pundits to justify policies that would keep more people out of the country. Without his work, they would be hard-pressed to find any academic or scholar making the same arguments. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

The Cuban-born Harvard economist who immigration critics love

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2017 4:01 am

Advocates of a higher minimum wage have scaled back their push for a $15-an-hour rate, holding fewer events this year than they have since the movement began in 2014.

Minimum wage advocates scale back their $15 fight

Sean Higgins · August 10, 2017 11:15 pm

The U.S. Postal Service reported a $573 million increase in losses from a year earlier, driven by less mail being delivered as technology replaces the stamp and envelope. (AP Photo/Alex Washburn, File)

Postal Service posts $2.1 billion loss in quarter

Sean Higgins · August 10, 2017 3:24 pm

The officials fear that it is inevitable that the Supreme Court will end the unions' power to force workers to pay them fees for representing them in collective bargaining. Nor do the officials know how to respond to the coming change.

Unions fear they can’t stop right-to-work

Sean Higgins · August 6, 2017 4:01 am

In a closely watched vote, Nissan workers at a Canton, Miss., plant rejected the United Auto Workers by a 2-to-1 margin in an organizing vote concluded late Friday, dealing a major blow to the union's hopes to make inroads in the south. The vote was 2,244 to 1,307. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Nissan workers reject union by nearly a 2-1 margin

Sean Higgins · August 5, 2017 1:23 pm

In the CNN case, the board argued that the company exerted enough control over Team Video Services, a staffing agency, that it became a joint employer.

Court gives CNN win in labor dispute

Sean Higgins · August 4, 2017 10:42 pm

The pension plans are going belly-up at a rate rapidly depleting the money needed to cover the losses. (Twitter)

Multiemployer pensions insolvent by 2025, agency says

Sean Higgins · August 4, 2017 10:16 pm

"This could go down as one of the most vicious, and illegal, anti-union crusades in decades," Vermont independent says. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Bernie Sanders attacks Nissan over union campaign

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2017 9:20 pm

In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, a UAW member holds up a flyer to be given to Nissan workers as they leave the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Miss. Union members met most shifts arriving and leaving waving posters, flyers and singing union chants at each of the plant's employee entrances. In voting that begins early Thursday, Aug. 3, some 3,700 direct employees at Nissan Motor Co.'s car and truck assembly plant in Canton will decide whether they want a union. The polls close at 7 p.m., local time on Friday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Nissan plant vote a crucial test for unions

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump is close to picking Vermont lawyer Peter Robb to be the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, sources indicate. (Wikipedia Commons)

Senate confirms Marvin Kaplan for NLRB

Sean Higgins · August 2, 2017 10:02 pm

The Senate on Wednesday morning moved forward on President Trump's pick of Marvin Kaplan to fill an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board. (Creative Commons photo)

Senate moves forward on controversial NLRB pick

Sean Higgins · August 2, 2017 4:16 pm