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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released this statement after a procedural vote on extending emergency unemployment insurance benefits failed in the Senate:Today the Senate once again failed to approve an extension of emergency unemployment insurance, 40 days after the benefit was allowed to lapse. The bill fell short by one Republican vote.
A 300-year-old violin worth millions of dollars is being held safely at Milwaukee police headquarters more than a week after it was stolen.
When fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga washed up on a Pacific island chain after apparently being lost at sea for a year, he had one big concern: back pay.
The world has plenty of salt. It's America's roads that are in short supply.The wild winter has wreaked havoc on the supply chain between salt mines as far-flung as Chile and weather-beaten U.S. states struggling to find enough salt to keep roads safe.
This is a crosspost on the Kellogg Company lockout from BCTGM.The continued inaction by the Kellogg Company on the lockout of more than 220 workers at its Memphis, Tenn., cereal plant has drawn the attention of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). The Congressional Progressive Caucus consists of 75 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from around the country, and is the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus.
A 300-year-old violin worth millions of dollars is being held safely at Milwaukee police headquarters more than a week after it was stolen, according to NBC affiliate WTMJ.
The trade deficit numbers released today provide more evidence that U.S. trade policy needs to change, said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
Some 82,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated water — enough to fill more than 40 Olympic swimming pools — has leaked from a North Carolina power plant and is threatening water supplies across state lines.
