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The Senate today voted (54-46) to confirm Thomas E. Perez as labor secretary. His nomination had been threatened by a filibuster, but Republicans backed down this week as Democrats were preparing to change Senate rules to allow simple up or down majority votes on executive branch nominees.
A man accused of barreling his car into a young mother and her three little boys as they walked home from her aunt’s home Tuesday night in Philadelphia has a history of driving infractions, according to court records.
Three months ago today in West, Texas, 30 tons of highly explosive ammonia nitrate—stored in wooden sheds without sprinkler systems and near other combustible material—caught fire, exploded and killed 14 people including 10 firefighters. The blast leveled the West Fertilizer Co., plant and demolished a good portion of the surrounding town.Yet ammonia nitrate is still regulated by the same “patchwork” of state and federal standards with “many holes."
Boston man who had been listed as a witness against James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead, but there was no obvious sign of trauma and an autopsy was underway, officials said Thursday.
Relief is on the way from the brutal heat wave that has punished the Northeast and Midwest all week, but it’ll come at a price — severe thunderstorms and perhaps tornadoes.The Midwest will be first to get a break. A dip in the jet stream will clear the way for a cold front.
This week trade union leaders from G20 countries are meeting at the Labor 20 (L20) Summit in Moscow to tackle the world's biggest problems including rising unemployment, alarming levels of youth unemployment and the overall lack of jobs.
A Michigan family was surprised to find a marijuana pipe, rather than the traditional toy, inside their 4-year-old’s Burger King Kid’s Meal.The family was in Dundee, Mich.
In speaking out against "Stand Your Ground" self-defense laws this week, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized legislation that has been enacted in some two dozen states and has been backed by powerful gun lobbyists since the first such law was passed in Florida in 2005.
The Large Retailer and Accountability Act of 2013 (LRAA), passed by the Council of the District of Columbia last week, arrived on Mayor Vincent Gray’s desk Wednesday. The bill establishes a minimum wage of $12.50 an hour for workers at retail stores with more than 75,000 square feet and whose parent company makes more than $1 billion in gross revenues annually.This bill was not controversial until Walmart, with plans to bring six stores into the District of Columbia, threatened to cancel three of those projects if the bill passed. Despite that threat, here are five reasons Mayor Gray should sign the LRAA when it gets to his desk. Are you listening, Mr. Mayor? Here we go:
The AFL-CIO, MomsRising.org and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler hosted a tweetchat yesterday on what workplace issues women care most about. See some highlights from the tweetchat after the jump.
