labor_unions,

Welcome to the 'labor_unions,' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'labor_unions,'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “labor_unions,”

• Teacher Survey: Children Coming to School Hungry

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
         Despite programs intended to ensure children have enough to eat in and out of school, teachers across the nation report they are witnessing a growing number of hungry students—which affects their ability to concentrate and learn, according to a new survey. More than 60 percent of the teachers ...
  15 hours ago

• Northampton, Mass., City Council Backs Living Wage

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
  With working families trying to stretch every dollar to make ends meet, the City Council in Northampton, Mass., last night unanimously gave final approval to a resolution defining a living wage as a human right. The nonbinding resolution also states the city will attempt to do business with employers that pay living ...
  1 day ago

• WSJ: Unemployment Rate Falls to 10%

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 456
  U.S. job losses in November posted the smallest drop since the start of the recession and the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined, a sign the labor market is finally healing as the economy recovers. Nonfarm payrolls fell by just 11,000 last month, slowing down from a downwardly revised 111,000 drop seen in ...
  1 day ago

• Timothy Geithner Says Transaction Tax Would Hurt Retail Investors

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 456
  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said any tax on financial transactions would have to be designed to ensure taxpayers don’t ultimately bear the burden, criteria he said no current plan meets. “I have not seen the version of that that I think works,” Geithner said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s ...
  1 day ago

• Working America, Union Members Speak Out on Need for Jobs

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
      Working America and union members held roundtable discussions of the jobs crisis in Albuquerque and other cities across the country.         While top leaders from government, business and labor gathered yesterday at the White House, grassroots union members and struggling families ...
  1 day ago

• Unionization secret ballot election coming to Dodge City

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  In its quest to pass the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, union leaders and their Democratic allies claim that the current system, having workers decide on union representation in a secret ballot election, does not work. Well, within the next few weeks, employees at the National Beef meat processing plant in Dodge ...
  1 day ago

• Obama’s Jobs Summit: The Invisible Hand of SEIU and ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  As President Obama concludes his first jobs summit, almost a year into his presidency, the nature of the guest list hints at a deliberate initiative that’s been underway for over 15 years – and it’s not one of the obvious presumptions that most would make.  Notice that of the list of leaders invited , the ...
  1 day ago

• Unemployment’s Surprising Drop

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 691
  The Labor Department is out with its November unemployment rate and the change in non-Farm payrolls.  The official unemployment rate in November went down to 10.0% from 10.2% in October.  That is of course the official rate, as the unofficial rate is tallied much higher and most agree on somewhere around 17%.  The ...
  1 day ago

• Trumka on MSNBC: Jobs Summit a Good Step

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
        AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said tonight on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” he was encouraged by the White House Jobs Summit earlier today and that he’s looking forward to working on the urgent goal of job creation.  Trumka told host Ed Schultz that in the discussions among President Obama, ...
  2 days ago

• Minnesotans Urge Lawmakers: ‘Put People Back to Work’

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
  Barb Kucera, editor of Workday Minnesota , reports on a roundtable discussion on the jobs crisis. Liz Freeberg, a Circle Pines resident who is one of thousands of unemployed Minnesotans, has a message for those gathered Thursday at President Obama’s White House jobs summit: Keep focusing on the fact that this is ...
  2 days ago

• Labor Department Launches Major Attack on Black Lung

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
  The Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) today launched a major initiative to end new cases of black lung among the nation’s coal miners. MSHA’s initiative includes more focused enforcement, targeted education and training, rulemaking and collaboration with stakeholders. According ...
  2 days ago

• Did Obama Warn on Friday’s Unemployment Data?

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 691
  There have been at least two occasions where President Obama has effectively made reference to the direction of the unemployment and non-farm payrolls data within the few days before the key report due Friday.  One was just a month ago, but it seems that the third telegraph we would count was just made today ahead ...
  2 days ago

• Watch the White House Jobs Summit Live

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
  JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV        Holding for White House summit to begin. Today, the White House has convened a summit to discuss solutions to our nation’s job crisis. President Barack Obama has invited elected officials, academics, union leaders and business executives to ...
  2 days ago

• After White House Jobs Summit, Check Out Trumka on Ed Schultz

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
        Tonight, after the White House jobs summit , AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will appear on MSNBC’s Ed Show . Trumka will speak with host Ed Shultz about the jobs crisis crippling the nation, the vital need to address it quickly and the AFL-CIO’s five-point plan for job creation. Tune in at ...
  2 days ago

• Oprah taping White House Christmas show on same day as job summit

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  The White House is holding a jobs summit today, which is essentially going to be only a dog and pony show--all pageantry, no results. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce, which happens to be one of the biggest critics of President Obamas economic policies, wont be there. But Oprah Winfrey will be at the White ...
  2 days ago

• Robert Samuelson—Job creation made hard

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 456
  Obama cant be fairly blamed for most job losses, which stemmed from a crisis predating his election. But he has made a bad situation somewhat worse. His unwillingness to advance trade agreements (notably, with Colombia and South Korea) has hurt exports. The hostility to oil and gas drilling penalizes one source of ...
  2 days ago

• NY Times Editorial: The Job Summit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 456
  Americans need to know how the administration plans to reduce a 10.2 percent unemployment rate — a 26-year high and rising. They need to know how the government will foster hiring and help replace the eight million jobs eliminated so far in two years of recession. Economic growth alone cannot repair damage that ...
  2 days ago

• Wasting Time At The Jobs Summit

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 691
  The ADP private sector jobs report says that 169,000 people became unemployed in November. This means that the government figures on unemployment for last month will likely indicate that the jobless population went up by 200,000 or more. Experts give a large range of figures, but at least seven million people are out ...
  2 days ago

• Beige Book Turns Almost Optimistic in December

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 691
  The Federal Reserve Board’s Beige Book has offered a dismal report and dismal outlook for what is roughly two years now.  That can’t be a shock considering how crummy the economy and job prospects have been.  But today’s release of the Beige Book from the FRB has turned what will feel almost nothing short of ...
  3 days ago

• Machinists Highlight Trumka’s Jobs Plan

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 646
    The Machinists union ( IAM ) has been at the forefront of the fight to end our nation’s jobs crisis, and in a new video , the union is highlighting the dangerous rise in unemployment and the AFL-CIO’s five-point plan for job creation . The video features footage of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka ...
  3 days ago

Comments about labor_unions,