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Department of Homeland Security officials said Friday that they are improving the student visa system after a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev re-entered the country with an invalid visa.The officials said the department was “reforming the student visa system” to make sure customs and border officers get almost instant updates on visa information.Azamat Tazhayakov, a Kaz...
More than 80 dining hall workers at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., voted on Tuesday to join UNITE HERE Local 11.
One bus driver took going green to a whole new level this week, filling his gas tank with a thousand pounds of pot.Customs and Border Protection officers near San Diego discovered the stash hidden inside a commercial bus in line to cross at the San Ysidro port of entry.A 56-year-old Mexican citizen was waiting with the bus, according to border officials. An officer sensed something was off, and a ...
Mother’s Day is a little more than a week away (May 12), so you have no excuse for waiting until the last minute to find a nice tribute for Mom that also carries the union label. Our friends at Labor 411, the union business directory from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, can help you out.
It was a great showdown Monday, April 29, under very tight security in Gillette, Wyo., with the Mine Workers (UMWA) members and Peabody Energy CEO Gregory Boyce. Five armed Campbell County police officers guarded entrances to the meeting. All UMWA proxy holders were admitted to the meeting room at Gillette College, while six environmental protesters were forced to sit in an "overflow" room, watching on closed-circuit TV.
