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A 3-year-old girl weighed only 11 pounds when she died early Monday, according to the Philadelphia Medical Examiner.On Tuesday, Philadelphia authorities charged Nathlayz Rivera's parents with the girl's starvation murder.
An Ohio courtroom became a stage for a dramatic show of legal theater Tuesday when the judge presiding over the arraignment of the so-called 'YouTube confessor' Matthew Cordle lashed out at the glut of news reporters huddled behind the defendant.
George Zimmerman's wife used her iPad to record a confrontation with her husband, and investigators are trying to recover the footage, Florida police said Tuesday."We're going to be taking it to be forensically analyzed," Lake Mary, Fla., Police public information officer Zach Hudson told NBC News.
Today, the AFL-CIO reaffirmed its commitment to a comprehensive immigration policy that respects workers' rights, including a road map to citizenship. Delegates at the AFL-CIO Convention called for an immigration policy that protects U.S. workers, reduces exploitation of immigrant workers and reduces employers' incentive to hire undocumented workers rather than U.S. workers. Such a policy, the convention resolution states, will increase shared prosperity, improve productivity and quality, limit wage competition, strengthen labor standards and collective bargaining rights, protect the health and safety of workers and provide a social safety net and quality education and training for working families.
“The labor movement,” Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez told delegates to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles this morning, “is one of the greatest forces for middle-class economic security."An economy that grows from the middle out can only be achieved if we continue to have a dynamic and empowered labor movement in America.
A Wisconsin golf course owner who advertised nine holes of golf for $9.11 to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks apologized Tuesday but said he would keep the club open despite a backlash that included death threats.
No worker is invisible, and that's exactly what AFL-CIO delegates and attendees said as they hit the streets of Los Angeles last night to raise awareness about the value of work. Check out the video highlights in this post, and see our blog post from yesterday explaining what these cardboard workers are all about.
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to switching his pregnant girlfriend's antibiotic with a drug known to cause abortion.
Last night, women of the labor movement came together to talk about creating a movement that matters to women at a "Bread and Rosie" reception. Sponsored by Union Plus, the reception featured special guests and speakers, including former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker and María Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.
You all know the facts, said economist Joseph Stiglitz, addressing the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention delegates. America's workers productivity has soared, yet wages have stagnated. "You've worked hard since 1979, your output per hour has increased 40%, but pay has barely increased," said Stiglitz. "The Great Recession has made things worse....95% of the gains from 2009 to 2012 went to the upper 1%. The rest, the 99%, never recovered."
