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If you looked at the list of awards T-Mobile has received over the past few years as a “Top Workplace,” “Best Place to Work,” “Best Employer,” etc., you might be knocking on the door to apply for a job—despite the history of National Labor Relations Board complaints against T-Mobile for its alleged mistreatment of workers.
The bachelorette party of eight from Fresno, California, became stranded after Hurricane Odile slammed the Baja California peninsula over the weekend.
Members of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition on Tuesday held a one-day unfair labor practice strike at Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Transportation District offices near the bridge’s tollbooths. The 450 workers in the unions that make up the coalition have been working without a contract since July 1.
After 11 years, technicians working for a CNN subcontractor have received justice after the company initiated what Communications Workers of America called a "phony reorganization scheme to get rid of unionized workers." The National Labor Relations Board found overwhelming evidence that the news channel engaged in anti-union activity and that CNN was a joint employer of the technicians and subcontractor. CNN was ordered to rehire about 100 workers and compensate 200 others, with the total CNN has to pay expected to be tens of millions of dollars. Additionally, the channel is required to restore any bargaining unit work outsourced since previous contracts ended, recognize the employees' union, and begin bargaining with the two National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians locals that represent the workers.
Zygi Wolf, co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings, announces that the team has decided to place Adrian Peterson on exempt, until his legal situation is resolved.
President Obama speaks to U.S. military members at CENTCOM in Tampa, Fla.
Three of the nation's top counter-terror officials told a House hearing they have no information that ISIS is plotting attacks in the U.S.
Hannah Graham, 18, disappeared early Saturday after leaving an off-campus party at the University of Virginia. The FBI has joined the search for her.
Domestic workers are essential to the global economy. They care for children, the elderly and people who need extra help around the house so that family members can leave the house and go to work. Unfortunately, as Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, points out, many domestic workers, while caring for our families, do not earn enough to provide for their own.
The current airstrikes by American jets have been critical to slowing ISIS’ advance, Odierno said, but “it will not be the end all to be all.”
