Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has filed cloture for a key National Labor Relations Board role. Nominee Peter Robb is a management-side labor lawyer with extensive experience in defending employers from unfair labor, age and […]
“With [the] release of the Republican tax plan, the debate over tax policy has finally officially begun. The Trump administration’s Council of Economic Advisers has been doggedly campaigning for corporate tax cuts by claiming, unconvincingly […]
“The House Republican tax bill has been introduced, packaged beautifully with lies,” writes Robert Borosage in The Nation. “Now House Republicans will push to pass, in one week, a 500-page bill written in secret that transforms the tax code. […]
Shoppers at the fashion retailer Zara in Istanbul have found unusual tags on their garments — complaints by Turkish workers who say they have not been paid for the merchandise in the store. Workers from an outsourced manufacturer […]
The controversy surrounding the GOP tax bill is over who will gain the most: the rich and corporations. The bill would cut the corporate rate well below previous attempts, eliminate a tax on inheritance that affects only people with many millions of […]
The leaders of all four above-the-line unions — SAG-AFTRA, the Directors Guild and the Writers Guilds East and West — have issued statements in recent weeks condemning sexual abuse. So have the IATSE, the Canadian performers’ union ACTRA and […]
A week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of DNAinfo and Gothamist, two of New York City’s leading digital purveyors of local news, celebrated victory in their vote to join a union. On Thursday, they lost their jobs […]
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless aid fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 229,000 last week. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, dropped to a 44-year low of 232,500. The four-week average was previously […]
Contractors seeking to work on a planned 300 mph train from Washington, D.C., to New York will have to use union workers under a new agreement. Under the memorandum of under-standing, any contractor or subcontractor who will work […]
A teachers union that is typically a reliable Democrat ally is spending millions of dollars to help a Donald Trump-supporting Republican try to unseat New Jersey’s top-ranking Democrat, a union leader himself. The New Jersey Education Association […]
©2016-2017 Motion Picture Editors Guild