WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will seek to shore up support for his economic agenda from Big Labor in White House talks on Friday, just days after he tried to mend fences with Big Business at a similar meeting. Obama will meet leaders of about a dozen of the country’s largest unions to discuss “strengthening our
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December 16, 2010, 4:16 PM EST By Alex Kowalski (Updates with closing markets in fifth paragraph.) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Fewer workers than forecast filed claims for unemployment benefits last week, pointing to a drop in firings that signals the U.S. job market is improving. Applications for jobless insurance payments fell by 3,000 to 420,000,
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State NOW President Marcia Pappas has come out against possible U.S. Senate contender Marc Cenedella’s lad-mag blogging, as described in Ray Hernandez’s recent NYT story. The article, it would appear, received more copy-editing than Pappas’ release did: A 1/22/12 New York Times piece by Raymond Hernandez, “Under the Name of a Senate Hopeful, Blog Posts
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Enlarge image Australian Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg A man walks along Martin Place in Sydney. The number of people employed fell by 29,300, the statistics bureau said today. A man walks along Martin Place in Sydney. The number of people employed fell by 29,300, the statistics bureau said today. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg Jan.
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By Shelley DuBois, reporterDecember 15, 2010: 1:13 PM ET FORTUNE — America doesn’t export many textiles that can’t be set on fire or stop a bullet. For that reason, fabrics weren’t at the forefront of the discussions surrounding the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS-FTA) talks. But the United States does export the fabric Kevlar, a
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