Labor

5 cautionary signs tucked into April’s jobs report

Josh Boak · May 3, 2014 7:26 am

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2013 file photo Texas Gov. Rick Perry gives the keynote speech at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown said Friday, May 2, 2014, it appears there was little California could have done to keep Toyota from moving its U.S. headquarters and about 3,000 jobs to Texas, saying "change is inevitable." Perry said his state offered Toyota $40 million in incentives. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Brown: Little state could have done to keep Toyota

Juliet Williams · May 3, 2014 12:13 am

President Barack Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. Obama and Merkel are mounting a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama praises jobs growth, says more work remains

Washington Examiner · May 2, 2014 4:17 pm

Workers march on the street holding a banner which reads: ''For the distribution the work and wealth'', during May Day, in Pamplona northern Spain, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of workers marked May Day in European cities with a mix of anger and gloom over austerity measures imposed by leaders trying to contain the eurozone's intractable debt crisis.(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Eurozone jobless down again in March

Pan Pylas · May 2, 2014 3:17 pm

6.3 Percent

Daniel Halper · May 2, 2014 11:32 am

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Orrin Hatch reaches into his past as a union worker to help reform Big Labor

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

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Employee Rights Act would make unions accountable to members

Richard Berman · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

After a pressure campaign by teachers unions, the Discovery Channel has knuckled under and canceled the program "Bad Teachers." The true-crime series, which examines cases where teachers became sexually involved with their students, aired its only episode last week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Teachers unions get Discovery Communications to cancel ‘Bad Teacher’ show

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Job seekers wait in line to turn in their resumes at the Bayfront Health booth at the Tampa Bay Job and Career Fair at the Coliseum, Monday, April 14, 2014, in St. Petersburg, Fla. It was the first time Bayfront Health participated in the event. The event also included a Career Fair. Several of the area's top schools for continuing education, local universities and vocational/technical institutes participated. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Cherie Diez)

Economy adds 288,000 jobs in April, unemployment rate falls to 6.3 percent

Joseph Lawler · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

Beltway Confidential

NLRB rules workers must pay year’s worth of dues to decertified union

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Tom Price is House sponsor of the Employee Rights Act, legislation that would ensure workers have a secret ballot in all union elections, protect their privacy during organizing bids and affirm that those in unions are not forced to contribute to union activities that are unrelated to collective bargaining, such as political campaigns. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Tom Price: The time has come to reform the union-worker relationship

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

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Want to help workers? Reinvent the union

James Sherk · May 2, 2014 4:00 am