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A group of Pentagon workers employed by federal contractors at low wages to operate concessions and clean federal buildings are the latest federal contract workers to walk off the job and urge President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to establish a living wage requirement for contractors that do business with the government.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
The Pentagon on Tuesday is expected to announce widespread changes to rules governing religious items and religion-based physical attributes that service members can maintain while in uniform – including beards, some religious tattoos, and turbans.
Millions of commuters in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic faced a nightmare commute Wednesday morning thanks to bitterly cold temperatures, high winds, and the aftermath of heavy snowfall.The snowfall ended south of Boston by 4 a.m. Wednesday, according to The Weather Channel.
Dramatic video shows the crash and ensuing fireball that enveloped a private plane that went down at the Aspen, Colo., airport this month, killing one person and injuring the two others on board.
A North Carolina grand jury declined Tuesday to indict a Charlotte police officer who killed an unarmed man by shooting him 10 times last year.
Six gay couples filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Florida seeking to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage — joining dozens of other court cases across the country filed since an historic Supreme Court decision last year in favor of LGBT rights.
The nation’s capital was at a standstill Tuesday evening as snow continued falling at a rate of about an inch an hour — while commuters across the Northeast struggled to get home through blizzard-like conditions.
The nation’s capital was at a standstill Tuesday evening as snow continued falling at a rate of about an inch an hour — while commuters across the Northeast struggled to get home through blizzard-like conditions.
