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AFL-CIO Policy Director and Special Counsel Damon Silvers schooled CNBC's Kelly Evans and Simon Hobbs today about proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits—and warned politicians to stay far away from the idea.
The government contract for the company that built the glitch-prone website for Obamacare has ballooned to three times its original cost, and some Republicans are demanding the resignation of the cabinet secretary who oversees it.Since its launch, on Oct.
A 17-year-old girl was caught shopping at a Manhattan Victoria's Secret with a dead baby in her bag Thursday afternoon, the NYPD says.A security guard at the 34th Street store pulled aside the girl and her 17-year-old friend under suspicion of shoplifting about 1:30 p.m.
One of two Florida inmates serving life sentences for murder who got a get-out-of-jail-free card thanks to forged court documents had tried once before to escape with bogus papers.Joseph Jenkins, 34, walked out of the Franklin Correctional Institution in Carabelle, Fla., on Sept.
The 2,500 workers at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) were forced on strike early this morning after BART management “demanded new sweeping powers to endanger and exploit our workers—all of this at the last minute,” said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1555.This is not a union strike. This is a management strike brought on by absolute arrogance.
Authorities in Utah are considering criminal charges against a group of men who gleefully shoved a boulder off its perch in a state park — and disturbed a rock formation that park officials say is 170 million years old.
The 2013 AFL-CIO National Convention marked a historic opening in the labor movement and signaled a commitment to diversity, new partnerships and new ideas to transform the labor movement that has been in a steady decline the past 30 years. In representing the UCLA Labor Center, I served on the Committee on Growth, Innovation and Political Action, one of the many pre-convention committees. During this committee process, labor leaders, academic partners and worker center leaders met and created resolutions that focused on new opportunities for worker centers to affiliate into central labor councils, new organizing strategies for AFL-CIO affiliates, labor law reform, immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship and other innovative themes.
A car and a police cruiser collided at an intersection just north of Columbus, Ohio early Friday, killing six people and injuring an officer, officials said.
A man and a woman accused of engaging in oral sex on a flight from Medford, Ore., to Las Vegas have pleaded guilty in federal court to misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges.
By Tony Dokoupil, Senior Staff Writer, NBC NewsFlanked by a boom mic and an American flag, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper praised his state for rebounding after last month’s historic flood.
