MADISON, Wis. — Spelling more trouble for organized labor in the U.S., Republican legislators in the Wisconsin state Senate approved a right-to-work bill here on Wednesday, sending the measure to…
Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Mickey Kantor has a vivid memory of August 1993. The North American Free Trade Agreement was in trouble. Though the agreement had been signed the year…
LOS ANGELES — Shipowners and dockworkers reached a tentative deal on Friday night to end a protracted labor dispute that had jammed ship traffic at ports along the West Coast…
(RNS) San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has rejected criticism from state lawmakers over the use of morality clauses for Catholic schoolteachers, asking whether they would “hire a campaign manager who…
SEOUL, South Korea — When the North Korean carpenter was offered a job in Kuwait in 1996, he leapt at the chance. He was promised $120 a month, an unimaginable…
OTTAWA — About 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway walked off the job early Sunday morning in a dispute over wages and benefits. Although the company…
(Adds background on labor dispute) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has asked Labor Secretary Tom Perez to travel to California to help spur an agreement in…
“Help wanted” signs are popping up everywhere: There were more than 5 million jobs available in the U.S. at the end of 2014, the highest number since early 2001, the…
Some researchers have raised the possibility of a link between Pitocin — a synthetic form of the hormone oxytocin that is widely used to start or assist the progress of…
In a sign the economic momentum evident late last year has carried into 2015, the Labor Department said Friday that American employers added 257,000 jobs in January, as wage growth…
In economics, the past is never dead — it’s always subject to revision. Case in point: The biggest news in the January jobs report happened in December and November. January’s…
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s embattled prime minister, Tony Abbott, said Friday that he would fight an attempt to contest his leadership next week, after a junior politician from his conservative…
WASHINGTON — In trying to win support for a controversial new trade pact in Asia, President Barack Obama has been offering one major reason why the deal is so important:…
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WASHINGTON — With Republicans looking to block one of the biggest labor law reforms of the Obama era, Senate Democrats are telling the National Labor Relations Board that it has…
The fictional world of “Harry Potter” has made a profound impact on human rights in Muggle society. And it used chocolate to do it. – To be fair trade certified,…
China has moved tens of millions of workers from rural to urban areas, where they are more productive. But even more labor is needed. “China has been so successful at…
Other products launched Thursday included headphones, and a tiny set top box. The privately-owned company is known in China for its cheap phones and ardent fans. The devices — which…