Labor
Latest Stories
20100929-181027-pic-222670016.jpg
Longshoremen pass time early Wednesday at the Port of Newark in New Jersey before being persuaded later in the day to return to work. The dispute was between their union and Fresh Del Monte Produce. (Associated Press)
Plane.jpg
** FILE ** Workers assemble regional jets at a Bombardier plant in Montreal in 2003. (Canadian Press Photo/Ryan Remiorz)
strike_6837
Demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized the march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget-slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
strike_6836
A woman takes a picture as demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. The ironic banner in French reads: 'Don't touch our profits'. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
strike_6835
Riot police detain a protester in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
strike_6834
A protester is detained by plain clothes policemen, during a demonstration in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
strike_6831
Demonstrators march as hold a bunner tha read in Greek, "No to the frugality yes to the employment and to the development" outside of Finance Ministry during an anti-austerity protests in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Anti-austerity demonstrations erupted across Europe to protest the budget-slashing, tax-hiking, pension-cutting austerity plans of European governments seeking to control their debt. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
strike_6830
Thousands of demonstrators march in Lisbon Wednesday, Sept. 29 2010, demanding more and better employment. Portugal's government convened an unscheduled Cabinet meeting Wednesday as it came under fierce pressure to explain how it intends to steer the country out of a deepening financial crisis. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
strike_6826
Demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions prepared a march of nearly 100,000 workers on the European Union institutions on Wednesday to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
belgium_6753
Riot police detain protesters in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions on Wednesday to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
belgium_6752
Demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
belgium_6751
A woman takes a picture as demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. The ironic banner in French reads: 'Don't touch our profits'. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
belgium_6746
A protester is detained by plain clothes policemen, during a demonstration in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
belgium_6745
Riot police detain a protester in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
belgium_6744
Riot police detain protesters in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions prepared a march of nearly 100,000 workers on the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
belgium_6743
Demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions prepared a march of nearly 100,000 workers on the European Union institutions on Wednesday to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
spain_6722
A store employee works on a display window that has graffiti with the word "strike" on in Madrid's Gran Via, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
20100928-191218-pic-236299014.jpg
Associated Press Andy Stern, seen here in October 2009 while still president of the Service Employees International Union, is said to be the subject of an FBI corruption probe.
Romania Police Protes_Lea.jpg
** FILE ** A protesting policemen holds up handcuffs during a rally in front of government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. More than 8,000 police officers and jail wardens, chanting anti-presidential slogans, joined the rally and, later, an unauthorized march to the Romanian president's offices to protest austerity measures such as cuts in salaries and pensions imposed by the government to meet International Monetary Fund requirements for getting a loan. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
france_6420
Women holding a placard reading "Women! Double day, Half pension" during a protest, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. French commuters squeezed onto limited trains or fought for rare parking spots Thursday as a second round of strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 hobbled trains, planes and schools across the country. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
