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Operating Engineers General Counsel Richard Griffin is among the three new members of the National Labor Relations Board President Obama will appoint through recess appointments, the White House announced.
Frustrated by roadblocks in the Republican-run Congress, the Obama administration and independent agencies are making good on improving U.S. workplaces by issuing new health, safety and workers’ rights rules.
The 2012 Minnesota legislative session gets underway January 24 for what promises to be another bruising clash between the widely divergent views of the Republican majority in the legislature and DFL Governor Mark Dayton, allied with the legislature’s DFL minority.
Members of AFSCME who work for Hennepin County voted December 6 to approve new two-year contracts. The agreements offer workers a $500 lump sum payment in January 2012 and across-the-board wage increases for 2013.
He beat out some tough competition, but Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart’s board of directors, is the top vote getter in the 11th annual Jobs with Justice “Scrooge of the Year” election.
Workers are back on the job after ratifying an agreement to end a 19-day strike at Polar Tank Trailer.
Despite a down economy and millions out of work, the nation’s largest banks are getting ready to hand out end-of-year bonus checks to their CEOs, CFOs and other top executives. And this year, total bonuses and compensation are expected to be even higher than last year.
The National Labor Relations Board’s controversial case against Boeing, which set off an uproar from big business and Congressional Republicans, ended quietly after the Machinists voted for a new pact with the aircraft giant.
The governing board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists will vote Jan. 28 on a three-year pact that union negotiators reached with four of the nation’s television networks, the union announced. Assuming board approval, AFTRA members will then vote on it.
Ford Motor Company\’s Twin Cities Assembly Plant, which opened in 1925, closed its doors Friday, Dec. 16.
