Tag: Labor unions

A demonstrator holds a flare during a demontration march of French national railway SNCF in Paris, Thursday, June 19, 2014. They are striking over plans to streamline and open the state-run network, considered among the world's best, to private competition. A week into a nationwide train strike that has tangled traffic and stranded tourists and has caused some of the worst disruption to the country's rail network in years.(AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French train workers protest rail reform

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 4:13 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Only a quarter of Illinois home day care providers backed unionization

Sean Higgins · June 18, 2014 10:31 pm

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Beltway Confidential

National Labor Relations Board rules employers wrong to fire profane employees

Sean Higgins · June 17, 2014 10:08 pm

People rally for an increase in the minimum wage on the Great Western Staircase at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Several hundred fast-food workers and other low-wage employees from around New York gathered to pressure lawmakers to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10.10 an hour and let local cities raise it even higher. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Fast-food workers push for raise at NY Capitol

David Klepper · June 17, 2014 9:21 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Renn., speaks to members of the media at the Capitol on Oct. 11, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Lamar Alexander calls on Senate to rein in National Labor Relations Board

Sean Higgins · June 17, 2014 8:03 pm

Tear gas, clashes: France fed up with train strike

Sylvie Corbet · June 17, 2014 5:32 pm

Governor Dannel P. Malloy addresses the Connecticut AFL-CIO political convention held at rhe Omni Hotel in New Haven, Conn., Monday June 16, 2014. At right is Lori Pelletier, executive secretary/treasurer for the Connecticut AFL-CIO. (AP Photo/The New Haven Register, Mara Lavitt) mlavitt@newhavenregister.com

Malloy, Foley make promises to Connecticut unions

Susan Haigh · June 17, 2014 1:14 am

FILE - In a Sept. 28, 2011 file photo, a native fisherman displays a salmon he pulled from his net on the Duwamish River, in Seattle. The state Department of Ecology appears ready to sharply increase Washington's fish consumption rate, an obscure number that has huge implications because it helps set water quality standards. A higher number means fewer toxic pollutants would be permitted in waters. Unions representing Boeing machinists and mill workers are siding with businesses in a bitter fight over how much fish people eat, and thus how clean Washington state waters should be. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Unions join fight over Washington fish consumption

Phuong Le · June 17, 2014 12:09 am

Tentative deal reached on ferry union contract

Tentative deal reached on ferry union contract

Becky Bohrer · June 16, 2014 10:56 pm

Bangor, Mich., kindergarten teacher Kimberle Byrd thought that she was no longer a member of the Michigan Education Association. After all, the state had adopted a right-to-work law in late 2012, meaning workers couldn't be forced to join a union even if their workplace was organized. Since she hadn't re-upped her MEA membership after that, she assumed she was out. (Thinkstock)

Michigan teachers union attacks credit rating of member seeking to leave

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2014 10:36 pm

A man who identified himself as a police officer points his gun at anti-World Cup protesters blocking a road that leads to the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 15, 2014. The man told people not come any closer to him, and fired shots into the air which dispersed the crowd. He then continued shooting from a car driven by another person as they left the scene. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio police investigate officers’ firing in protest

Bradley Brooks · June 16, 2014 10:10 pm

FILE - A SEPTA regional train, the R7, rolls into 30th Street station in Philadelphia in this Nov. 16, 2004 file photo. Four hundred workers at a Philadelphia-area regional rail system went on strike Saturday morning June 14, 2014, shutting down 13 train lines that carry commuters to the suburbs and Philadelphia International Airport. Subways, trolleys and buses operated by SEPTA will continue to run. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Riders relieved Philadelphia rail strike is over

Kathy Matheson · June 16, 2014 1:00 am