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Retail giant Walmart reached an agreement with the Labor Department to make improvements at nearly 4,700 Walmart and Sam's Club locations after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection at a Rochester, N.Y., store in 2011 found numerous safety violations, USA Today reports. The company also will pay $190,000 in fines. Similar violations were found between 2008 and 2010 at stores in nine states.
Jurors in the Whitey Bulger trial asked Thursday to examine a submachine gun with an obliterated serial number that is linked to the last count of the federal indictment.The German-made MP-40 — known as exhibit 933 — was sent back to the room where jurors were in their third day of deliberations.
A shelter designed for classrooms can withstand AK-47 rounds and F5 tornado winds – and just might find a place in American schools.
Two students accused of hiding evidence surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings were indicted for obstruction of justice by a federal grand jury in Boston on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s office for Massachusetts said on its official Twitter account.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest report on the job market on Aug. 2. It had some good news for African Americans: The black unemployment rate in July dipped to 12.6%, its lowest level since January 2009. The BLS also reported that since August 2012 the unemployment rate for adult black men (those older than 20) remains below its 14.4% level in January 2009 and was reported at 12.5% in July. More importantly, the share of black men holding jobs continues to rebound from its record low of 56.5% in 2011 to 59.2%, almost equal its level of 60.4% in January 2009. That was the good news.
As suspense built Thursday over who held the three winning tickets for a $448 million Powerball jackpot, ticket holders everywhere should be reminded of one thing: More than three dozen people are in for a million-dollar payday of their own.
A new poll on whether American relationships are segregated found 40 percent of whites and 25 percent of non-whites do not have any close friends of other races.
Aug. 28 marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. To celebrate that half-century anniversary, civil rights, labor, faith and other groups will hold a weeklong series of events Aug. 21-28 in the nation’s capital under the banner of “Freedom, Jobs, Peace and Social Justice.”
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) announced today that it is affiliating with the AFL-CIO. UFCW President Joe Hansen said, “We join the AFL-CIO because it is the right thing to do for UFCW members, giving them more power and influence."It is about fostering more opportunities for workers to have a true voice on the job. It is about joining forces to build a more united labor movement that can fight back against the corporate and political onslaught facing our members each and every day.
The FBI appealed Thursday for Americans to help solve how fake Michigan driver’s licenses were obtained by those behind the bombing last year of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria.
