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House to probe rail security after Paris attack
A pair of House committees is planning to hold a hearing on U.S. rail security after a thwarted attack by a heavily armed gunman on a high-speed train in Europe. The House Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittees on intelligence and on transportation security and cou [...]Landmark year in collective bargaining will raise wages
Washington – Working people are achieving significant victories through the most expansive period of collective bargaining in modern labor history, according to a new report by the AFL-CIO’s Center for Strategic Research. “This country is having an important debate about rais [...]Committee announces Feinberg nomination hearing
Washington — The pending nominee to be the next administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will provide testimony at a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Thursday, September 17 at 9:45 a.m.Ms. Feinberg has se [...]NLRB holds dues check-offs continue when CBA ends
On August 27, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned its policy that had existed since 1962, and held that employers remain obligated to withhold from wages and remit union dues to their employees’ union, even after the expiration of a collective bargainin [...]GOP’s Walker proposes vast union restrictions
MADISON, Wis.—Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker on Monday will call for sweeping restrictions on organized labor in the U.S., seeking to replicate nationwide his successful effort as Wisconsin’s governor to curb the power of unions. At a town hall meeting i [...]