Labor

S K Handtools workers end strike, save health care and jobs

November 12, 2009 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO - After a 10-week strike to save their jobs, health care and union, seventy Teamster Local 743 members at S K Handtools voted 3 to 1 to accept the company offer and began returning to...

Illinois graduate employees move towards strike

November 12, 2009 By Damien Mathew

The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been engaged in a hard fought struggle to establish adequate compensation for its members.

Foreign companies getting bulk of green stimulus

November 10, 2009 By Susan Webb

Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.

For Hilda Solis, workplace safety more than a slogan

November 9, 2009 By John Wojcik

If the last week of October and the beginning of November are any indication the U.S. Department of Labor is on a crime busting spree.

Unemployment at record levels

November 9, 2009 By John Wojcik

The nation's official unemployment rate soared into double-digit territory in October, increasing 0.4 percent that month, to 10.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.