Labor
September 18, 2006 -
One of the choicer pieces of dubious dealings revealed at the hearings today about war profiteering was the disclosure that Halliburton/KBR was offering medals to wounded employees -- but only if they agreed not to sue the company.
August 4, 2006 -
When debate was sizzling last year over the Central American Free Trade Agreement -- passed by a 217-215 vote in the U.S.
July 18, 2006 -
This article in the Birmingham Business Journal says that bankruptcy rates in some Southern states are among the highest in the nation:
July 13, 2006 -
It's official!
July 12, 2006 -
Alcoa Aluminum Co., with operations in Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, and other states including Tennessee where they employ 1600 workers, recently asked their 9,000 United Steelworker employees for concessions in a new contract.
July 7, 2006 -
The Common Sense Foundation in Raleigh passes long the news:
June 26, 2006 -
The Senate may have shot down an effort to boost the minimum wage last week, but the movement is still alive in the states. In North Carolina, a bill to increase the state minimum wage by one dollar, House Bill 2174, passed the state House, but the state Senate Commerce Committee has not taken it up yet.