Sean Higgins

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James Damore, a former Google engineer fired in 2017 after writing a memo about the biological differences between men and women, challenged his firing and argued his memo was protected free speech. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

NLRB rejects complaint by Google worker fired for diversity memo

Sean Higgins · February 16, 2018 10:49 pm

The tariffs that President Trump imposed on steel and aluminum imports may erode corporate investment that was poised to surge after major tax cuts last year, according to the Business Roundtable.

Steelworkers union praises White House’s steel import study

Sean Higgins · February 16, 2018 9:24 pm

In this 2015 photo, cut panels of steel used to make blades to build fans for industrial ventilation systems are stored on the production floor at the Robinson Fans Inc. plant in Harmony, Pa. On Friday, the Steel Manufacturers Association praised a report from the Trump administration that called for tariffs on steel imports. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Steel industry praises proposed tariffs on imports

Sean Higgins · February 16, 2018 8:44 pm

Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO's president, announced a "Working People's Day of Action" for Feb. 24, the Saturday before the Supreme Court hears Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The Janus case questions whether public-sector workers can be forced to join or otherwise financially support their workplace's unions as a condition of employment. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

AFL-CIO plans ‘day of action’ for major Supreme Court labor case

Sean Higgins · February 15, 2018 11:22 pm

A complaint against the 2016 Trump campaign said that four sections of the campaign's code of conduct requiring workers to "keep confidential non-public information" about the campaign violated the National Labor Relations Act's rules covering worker communications.Ã¢â¬Â© (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Group appeals NLRB rejection of labor complaint against Trump campaign

Sean Higgins · February 15, 2018 9:54 pm

On Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board stated that a business can be held liable for workplace law violations at another company only if it has "direct control" over the second businesses' workplace. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Democrats seek to increase pressure on NLRB’s William Emanuel

Sean Higgins · February 14, 2018 9:45 pm

Conservatives oppose Trump over gas tax hike

Sean Higgins · February 14, 2018 6:35 pm

Business lobbyists have been pushing the Trump administration to undo a rule encouraging federal agencies to require project labor agreements, collective bargaining agreements unique to the construction industry, in contracts exceeding $25 million. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

White House mulls rollback of pro-union rule in federal contracts

Sean Higgins · February 13, 2018 10:53 pm

"The president has not declared anything out of bounds. Everything is on the table," Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao told reporters at the White House on Tuesday regarding a potential raise in the gas tax. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Gas tax increase ‘on the table,’ Elaine Chao says

Sean Higgins · February 13, 2018 8:52 pm

When do workers for those companies stop being contractors and become employees? Business groups are keen to limit those circumstances, which the Obama administration and court rulings have chipped away at. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)

Trump administration to tackle ‘gig economy’ this spring

Sean Higgins · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

"Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime." (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams: Trump has had ‘one of the best first years’

Sean Higgins · February 13, 2018 5:00 am

On Friday, a group of Democrats led by Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota (pictured above), Mark Takano of California, and Bobby Scott of Virginia announced they would hold a forum Thursday with liberal activists about the new policy on tipping from the Labor Department. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

Liberals up pressure on Labor Department to scrap tipping proposal

Sean Higgins · February 10, 2018 12:19 am