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Some 100 Chicago Sun-Times photographers who were abruptly fired last week, when the paper shuttered its entire 28-member photo department and their supporters, marched outside the Sun-Times building this morning to protest the paper’s “union-busting” and what they say was bad faith bargaining by the Sun-Times.
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is publicly calling on Congress to abandon job-killing cuts and "grand bargains"—which aren't so "grand" for America's working families—and focus on what the country really needs: jobs.
While some lawmakers reacted with outrage to a report in a British newspaper that the National Security Agency had requested phone records from a division of telecommunications giant Verizon, other prominent Congressional leaders said they have known about the practice for years.“This program has been lawful, it’s been approved,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein said. “It be...
Public reaction was decidedly mixed Thursday to a highly classified court order that revealed the U.S. government is gathering the phone data of Verizon customers.While many people raised concerns about privacy and government overreach, others said national security was most important.“I didn’t like it at first because of privacy,” said Randy Edwards, 52, of Texas, as he visited Rockefeller Plaza ...
Tropical Storm Andrea - the first of the Atlantic hurricane season - spawned a tornado in Florida early Thursday and threatened high winds, heavy rain and rough seas along much of the U.S. East Coast in the coming days.Tropical storm warnings were in effect for a large section of Florida's west coast all the way to Cape Charles Light in Virginia, according to the Weather Channel. Andrea's maximum ...
Temporary foreign workers, from teachers to agriculture workers to au pairs, typically pay recruiting fees to individuals or agencies retained by U.S. employers seeking foreign labor. These fees can range from $500 to well over $10,000, even for temporary jobs that pay little. That means these workers arrive in the United States deeply in debt because they must borrow money, often at high interest rates.
