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The majority of workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., have signed cards authorizing their affiliation with the UAW and the creation of a German-style "works council" at the plant, according to Gary Casteel, a regional director for UAW. Casteel says that the cards count as a legally binding election and that they include a statement about wanting to join VW's Global Works Council. The union has not put forth a formal timeline for official recognition yet.
Flames are shooting from the boardwalk in Seaside Park after a fire started at Kohr's Ice Cream shop.The five-alarm fire appears to be getting larger, as video shows the smoke and flames shooting from shop along the boardwalk, between Stockton and Farragut Avenues.
A massive spill of thick molasses has turned Honolulu Harbor into a watery wasteland, with divers reporting that thousands of fish have been suffocated and environmentalists calling it a disaster.
The new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is making it clear that his first priority is to push back against budget cuts required by the congressionally imposed sequester.
JACKSON, Miss. -- Eight years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, Mississippi still hasn't spent almost $1 billion in federal money dedicated to recovery from the storm. The remaining $872 million is part of $5.
Torrential rain drenched parts of Colorado, washing away homes, swamping roads, and causing at least three deaths as officials worked Thursday to evacuate towns and keep people out of the path of the rising water.
I'm a capitalist for one reason: to raise living standards in my community. A familiar mantra of capitalism guides me: Markets are powerful and efficient.I'm also a realist, so I temper that mantra: Markets are powerful and efficient. And markets fail.Market failure is an established, well-understood field of study in mainstream economics. Generations of economists accept the basics of market failure.However, American economists turn their heads away at the mention of it, because it sounds like heresy.
Thousands of fish are expected to die in Honolulu waters after a leaky pipe caused 233,000 gallons of molasses -- enough to fill seven railroad cars -- to ooze into the harbor and kill marine life, state officials said.
Torrential rain drenched parts of Colorado, washing away homes and causing at least two deaths as officials worked Thursday to evacuate towns and keep people out of the path of the rising water.
In 2004, after a long string of Republican governors and the shockingly narrow defeat of Prop. 72—which would have ushered in the most progressive health care reform ever implemented in the United States—California labor leaders got mad. And then they got organized.
