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As the Northeast returned Monday to more seasonable conditions after a major winter storm, snowy weather that clobbered the Upper Midwest made travel nearly impossible.
It’s time for Southwest Airlines to share the “LUV,” and that’s the message the airline’s ground workers in contract negotiations with the airline will deliver to Southwest management Wednesday on “LUV” Day.Members of Transport Workers (TWU) Local 555, representing Southwest’s 9,000 ground workers, will be joined by TWU Local 556 members, representing Southwest’s 11,000 flight attendants, to deliver special Valentine’s Day cards wishing executives a happy “LUV Day,” with a message about serving customers, ensuring a solid future, negotiating fair contracts and keeping the “LUV” alive.
On Tuesday, President Obama will give the first State of the Union Address of his second term in office and working families are happy to hear the focus will be jobs and the economy. This year’s address comes after an election in which America’s families made a clear choice between very different visions for the country.Across the country, working people will be watching and listening with great interest for the president to maintain the values and priorities on which they elected him, including a commitment to creating middle-class jobs, asking the wealthiest 2% to pay their fair share and protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from benefit cuts.
Departing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta extended Monday a list of benefits -- all previously denied by the Pentagon -- to the same-sex spouses of service members as well as to the unmarried partners of gay troops.
A man opened fire at a Delaware courthouse on Monday, killing two women and wounding two others before he was fatally shot, officials said.
Five percent of U.S. consumers have an error on their credit report that "could lead to them paying more for products such as auto loans and insurance," the Federal Trade Commission said Monday, as it issued a long-awaited study of credit report accuracy.
When the next Papal Conclave meets to replace the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, the United States will have an unprecedented voice in the process.
Tell PKC to Reinstate Workers in Mexico is a cross-post from IndustriALL Global Union's website. PKC [a Finnish auto-parts supplier] sacked more than 100 union supporters, including the entire union committee in December 2012 for campaigning for the election of an independent trade union, the National Union of Mine and Metalworkers (known as “Los Mineros”), at their plants in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.
President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to a celebrated Army veteran on Monday. Clinton Romesha, 31, a former active duty Army staff sergeant, is being honored for his "conspicuous gallantry" during the Battle of Kamdesh, a day-long firefight in Afghanistan in 2009.
President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to celebrated Army veteran Clinton Romesha on Monday afternoon, making the former active duty staff sergeant just the fourth living person to receive the military’s highest honor for service in Iraq or Afghanistan.
