Feed items
New U.S. Army recruits will not be permitted to sport tattoos below their elbows and knees or above their necklines, according to military publication Stars and Stripes.
Negotiating a fair contract is a complex process that involves hard work and commitment from both labor and management. When both sides bargain in good faith and share a goal of securing a deal, a deal eventually gets done. I’ve personally been involved in many tough negotiations that ended with a fair deal both parties could live with. It takes patience and willingness from both sides to compromise.
It wasn’t crab cakes and calamari delivered via room service to his tony penthouse paid for by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) “secretive nonprofit foundation,” but Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s so-called emergency manager overseeing the city’s bankruptcy, turned down an offer of a free lunch.Maybe he doesn’t have the taste for a down-home chili dog, but it’s more likely he didn’t have the stomach or backbone to dine with the retired city workers who invited him to lunch Monday. The retirees who, Orr has said, face “significant cuts” to pensions.
Across the country, for-profit companies are privatizing our schools, roads, prisons, drinking water and, sometimes, even the government itself. Today, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), publishers of the award-winning ALECexposed.org, launched OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org, a resource that functions like a Wikipedia page, devoted to helping taxpayers identify the corporations seeking to privatize public services in their communities.
This past Saturday, a number of college football players from Georgia, Georgia Tech and Northwestern wrote the letters APU on the gear they wore during televised games. APU stands for "All Players United" and is a campaign just launched by the National College Players Association (NCPA). The NCPA is advocating for reforms to college football and other sports sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that would protect the health and safety of college athletes and give players a fair share of the millions of licensing dollars the schools earn through the use of representations of the players.
The biological father of Baby Veronica — the 4-year-old Cherokee girl at the center of a cross-country custody dispute — returned her to her adoptive South Carolina parents Monday night at tribal headquarters in Oklahoma, representatives of her father and the Cherokee Nation told NBC News.
A prep school in central Minnesota held a prayer vigil Monday for four students who lost family members in the horrific terrorist attack at a luxury shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, according to local reports.Three current students and an alumna of St.
Members of the Mine Workers (UMWA) are rallying in St. Louis today, encircling the headquarters of Peabody Energy, as part of ongoing efforts to make the company and associated companies live up to the obligations they made to their workers. While the union reached an agreement with Patriot Coal to make sure that retired miners who primarily worked for Peabody receive those benefits, the long-term funding for those benefits has not yet been secured. Those health care costs were spun off into Patriot, which subsequently filed for bankruptcy. Today's rally is aimed at making Peabody live up to its obligations and fund health care for its retirees.
The number of child laborers has declined by one-third globally, from 246 million in 2000 to 168 million in 2012, according to an International Labor Organization (ILO) report released Monday. Yet the report also shows that despite the reduction, the worst forms of child labor will not be eliminated by 2016, a goal sought by the ILO and its international allies.
