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Apparently unwilling to face up to the North Carolina voters who are taking them to task each week for the extremist tea party/corporate agenda they are enacting, North Carolina legislators yesterday moved their normal Monday evening sessions back several hours to avoid the 12th Moral Monday protest at the state Capitol in Raleigh.But once again, nearly 2,000 civil rights, union, student and other working family activists rallied yesterday evening to spotlight the legislature’s and Gov. Pat McCrory’s radical actions, with a special emphasis on the continuing rollback of voting rights in North Carolina.
On July 15, the Bangladesh Parliament passed legislation amending the Bangladesh Labor Law of 2006. In doing so, the Parliament changed 87 sections of the existing law. Many of those changes were not substantive and fail to address the concerns raised by workers' rights advocates. In our view, the changes made by the Bangladesh government did not bring the country’s labor law into compliance with ILO fundamental rights, conventions and standards. Indeed, unions and workers' rights advocates worked to fix the portions of the proposed law that actually weaken, rather than strengthen, protections for workers.
The Massachusetts State Police photographer who leaked pictures of a Boston Marathon bomber manhunt faces a closed-door hearing Tuesday to determine what further punishment, if any, he will face. Sgt.
A runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport was reopened Tuesday morning after a disabled Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 skidded to a hard landing Monday evening as its front landing gear collapsed, authorities said.
The twisted life of a prosecution witness in the James “Whitey” Bulger trial came under scrutiny Monday when he admitted he had sexual liaisons with a young woman who called him “Daddy” growing up – and that he stood by as she was strangled.
It turns out the streets of the city aren’t so mean after all — especially when compared to country life.A new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers upends the commonly held perception that rural small towns are safer than big cities.
Police in Washington state cleared a convicted felon as a suspect Monday in the shooting death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son after a coroner's report found that the boy accidentally shot himself.
Michigan’s governor on July 15 appointed a seasoned financial guru to run Detroit’s ailing public school district, a move that many observers hailed as a saving grace for the city's classrooms in decline.Three days later, Detroit filed for bankruptcy.
At least 10 people suffered minor injuries when a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 skidded to a rough landing Monday at New York's LaGuardia Airport as its front landing gear collapsed, authorities said.Six of the 149 people aboard Southwest Flight 345, from Nashville, Tenn.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 skidded to a rough landing Monday at New York's LaGuardia Airport as its front landing gear collapsed.
