Labor
Latest Stories
8_1_2017_b4-estopinan8201.jpg
Illustration on IPAB and its implications for health care by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
puerto_rico_medical_marijuana_98087.jpg
In this July 24, 2017 photo, David Quinones, operations director of Natural Ventures shows a pack of processed marijuana in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Medical marijuana is legal in 29 U.S. states, but legislators in the largely conservative island of Puerto Rico had been reluctant to embrace an industry that the island’s treasury secretary says could generate up to $100 million a year in part through a sales and use tax, as well as help ease an unemployment rate that has hovered around 12 percent, the highest compared with any U.S. state. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
puerto_rico_medical_marijuana_13432.jpg
In this July 24, 2017 photo, Marijuana plants bloom at a laboratory in Natural Ventures in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Medical marijuana is legal in 29 U.S. states, but legislators in the largely conservative island of Puerto Rico had been reluctant to embrace an industry that the island’s treasury secretary says could generate up to $100 million a year in part through a sales and use tax, as well as help ease an unemployment rate that has hovered around 12 percent, the highest compared with any U.S. state. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
puerto_rico_medical_marijuana_88622.jpg
In this July 24, 2017 photo, Noel Sola, a cultivation worker at Natural Ventures carries marijuana plants in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Medical marijuana is legal in 29 U.S. states, but legislators in the largely conservative island of Puerto Rico had been reluctant to embrace an industry that the island’s treasury secretary says could generate up to $100 million a year in part through a sales and use tax, as well as help ease an unemployment rate that has hovered around 12 percent, the highest compared with any U.S. state. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
Earns-Under_Armour_01098.jpg-d0836.jpg
This Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, shows a pair of Under Armour SpeedForm Gemini 2 Record Equipped running shoes, containing an embedded chip to track exercise, on display, in New York. On Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, Under Armour announced it is cutting approximately 280 jobs from its global workforce and lowering its full-year revenue outlook, overshadowing a second-quarter performance that topped most expectations. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
nissan-union_61584.jpg
Nissan auto worker Ernest Whitfield sports a pro-UAW union hat during a Jackson, Miss., news conference, Monday, July 31, 2017, where local officials and U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., expressed their support for a company intimidation free union vote at the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Miss. The UAW has a vote scheduled Aug. 3-4, on whether it should represent some 3,700 workers. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
kansas_prison-disturbance_51205.jpg
FILE - This March 23, 2011, photo shows the El Dorado Correctional Facility near El Dorado, Kan. There has been another inmate disturbance at the troubled Kansas prison, a senior union official said, in at least the fourth incident at the facility over the last three months. Robert Choromanski, executive director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, told The Associated Press late Friday, July 28, 2017, that a Special Security Team was called to the prison earlier in the evening after 30 inmates refused to stand down. He said the information came from a prison employee who was monitoring emergency communications. No other details were immediately available. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
neshoba_county_fair_78712.jpg
Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant shows off a gold shovel he was awarded for the state's economic progress as he leaves the stage at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday, July 27, 2017. Bryant says employees at the Nissan Motor Co. plant in Mississippi should reject unionization. Workers at the manufacturing plant in Canton will vote Aug. 3 and 4 on whether to affiliate with the United Auto Workers. The union is trying to win its first vote at an entire plant in the South. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
pregnant_workers_76098.jpg
Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker, left, shakes hands with Alejandra Duarte after the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was signed into law at the Statehouse, Thursday, July 27, 2017, in Boston. Duarte testified before the legislature during April that she was forced to work longer hours with an increased workload after disclosing to her former employer that she was pregnant and wanted a lighter workload, while working at a Worcester laundry. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
pregnant_workers_69779.jpg
Mass. Sen. Joan Lovely, D-Salem, left, shakes hands with Alejandra Duarte after the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was signed into law at the Statehouse, Thursday, July 27, 2017, in Boston. Duarte testified before the legislature during April that she was forced to work longer hours with an increased workload after disclosing to her former employer that she was pregnant and wanted a lighter workload, while working at a Worcester laundry. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
exchange_mission_to_milwaukee_09734.jpg
A team of workers from the youth group at Asbury United Methodist Church work on scraping the side of a garage on Milwaukee's north side so it can be painted, on June 27, 2017. Other mission work in the city included scraping and painting the trim of a nearby house and landscaping. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
exchange_union_power_struggle_28990.jpg
Union members listen as Herman Marshman gives the president's report during an IBEW Local 272 meeting Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Midland, Pa. Marshman ran for president of the International Brothers of Electrical Workers Local 272, with no union leadership experience. (Rebecca Droke/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
exchange_union_power_struggle_93964.jpg
Election judges sort ballots as members of the IBEW Local 272 vote for executive board members Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in Midland, Pa. Herman Marshman ran for president of the International Brothers of Electrical Workers Local 272, with no union leadership experience. (Rebecca Droke/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
exchange_union_power_struggle_46287.jpg
Incoming union president Vic Roppa stands up to answer a question by outgoing union president Herman Marshman during a monthly IBEW Local 272 meeting Thursday, June 22, 2017, at the Knights of Columbus in Midland, Pa. After a dozen years leading the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 272 at FirstEnergy's Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant, Marshman found himself in a fight not just with the company but with members who didn't want to lose more than they already had. (Rebecca Droke /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
exchange_union_power_struggle_16626.jpg
Herman Marshman stands outside the First Energy Bruce Mansfield coal fired power plant Friday, July 7, 2017, in Shippingport, Pa. Marshman ran for president of the International Brothers of Electrical Workers Local 272, with no union leadership experience. (Rebecca Droke/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
dying_on_the_job_older_workers_18077.jpg
ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, AUG 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this photo provide by the Bryan, Texas Fire Department, taken on April 29, 2014, shoes belonging to one of the three workers injured after an explosion at the Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant. The fire killed a 60-year-old worker and injured another two workers. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics. (Bryan, Texas Fire Department via AP)
dying_on_the_job_older_workers_82942.jpg
ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, AUG 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this photo provide by the Bryan, Texas Fire Department, taken April 29, 2014, Bryan Texas firefighters stand outside the Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant following an explosion and fire. Earle Robinson, 60, and other employees were doing maintenance work at Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant, about 100 miles north of Houston, when there was a loud explosion. Workers called 911 and pleaded for help. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics. (Bryan, Texas Fire Department via AP)
dying_on_the_job_older_workers_05720.jpg
ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, AUG 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this photo provide by the Bryan, Texas Fire Department, taken April 29, 2014, Bryan Texas firefighters stand outside the Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant following an explosion and fire. Earle Robinson, 60, and other employees were doing maintenance work at Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant, about 100 miles north of Houston, when there was a loud explosion. Workers called 911 and pleaded for help. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics. (Bryan, Texas Fire Department via AP)
dying_on_the_job_older_workers_78300.jpg
ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, AUG 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this photo provide by the Bryan, Texas Fire Department, taken April 29, 2014, Bryan Texas firefighters stand outside the Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant following an explosion and fire. Earle Robinson, 60, and other employees were doing maintenance work at Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant, about 100 miles north of Houston, when there was a loud explosion. Workers called 911 and pleaded for help. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics. (Bryan, Texas Fire Department via AP)
