Labor
Union leaders question proposed U.S.-Europe ‘free trade’ pact
June 4, 2013Union leaders from the U.S. and Europe are questioning the value and safeguards for workers in a proposed "free trade" pact between the world's two largest trading areas.
Read moreToday in labor history: Massachusetts establishes first minimum wage
June 4, 2013Much later, in 1938, the country would get a federal minimum wage law under the Fair Labor Standards Act. But this initial law was still a powerful move.
Read moreMaryland’s Gov. O’Malley pushes jobs program
June 4, 2013"There is no progress without jobs, and there are no jobs without fiscal responsibility."
Read moreUnion BBQs for strikers on way to Walmart shareholders meet
June 4, 2013Union brothers and sisters and community supporters organized a barbecue for a caravan of striking Walmart workers who stopped in Orlando on May 28.
Read moreJudge OKs Patriot Coal plan to renege on miners’ pensions
June 3, 2013A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Louis has left Patriot Coal's retirees - whom it inherited from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal - high and dry, and said Patriot could dump its union contracts, too.
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