U.S. Economic Recovery: Signs of Acceleration? The Big Picture ...The U.S. economic recovery shows signs of accelerating, but still has lots of ground to cover...
Overseas unions lend weight to port strike Otago Daily Times ...American and Australian labour leaders are visiting Auckland this week to boost international support for 300 striking waterside workers, as unionists start picketing ships elsewhere...
Scott Walker's New Job: Governer Center for Media and Democracy ...Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has given himself a new job. In an email to constituents on March 2, he changed his title from Governor to "Governer."...
16-to-24-year-olds continue to face tough labor market Economic Policy Institute ...The unemployment rate for workers under the age of 25 has improved to 16.0 percent since its peak of 19.6 percent in the spring of 2010, but, excluding the Great Recession and its aftermath, remains higher than it has been since the fall of 1983...
A Labor Force Faces the Ultimate in Downsizing Wall Street Journal ...To dig out of a fiscal mess, the city of Detroit has reached tentative labor deals with the leadership of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the United Auto Workers and International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Then it had to win over Herbert Jenkins ... the only member of (his) collective bargaining unit...
US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law WSWS ...A bill passed Monday in the US House of Representatives and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests of last year...
States of Depression (opinion) New York Times ...If government employment under Mr. Obama had grown at Reagan-era rates, 1.3 million more Americans would be working as schoolteachers, firefighters, police officers, etc., than are currently employed in such jobs...
