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Loose ends to drive second term education agenda
President Barack Obama's education agenda for next four years may look less like real reform and more like tying up loose ends, experts say, with ...
Crew of Mozambique national airline go on strike
Pilots and crew members at Mozambique's national airline have gone on a one-day strike, grounding the carrier. Linhas Aerrreas de Mocambique Ltd.
Twinkie maker Hostess reaches the end of the line
Twinkies may not last forever after all. Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of the spongy snack with a mysterious cream filling, said Friday it would ...
S. African workers return to Anglo American mine
Miners at Anglo American Platinum Ltd. operations in South Africa returned to work Thursday, ending a more than eight-week strike that crippled the ...
Superstorm Sandy pushes US jobless claims to 439K
Superstorm Sandy drove the number of people seeking unemployment benefits up to a seasonally adjusted 439,000 last week, the highest level in 18 ...
Austerity protests stall several European nations
Hundreds of thousands of Europe's beleaguered citizens went on strike or snarled the streets of several capitals Wednesday, at times clashing with ...
EU: new aid to Egypt partly tied to IMF loan
The European Union will release about half of a 1.2 billion euro package of grants and loans to Egypt, officials said Wednesday, a badly needed boost ...
South Africa labor strikes, unrest expand to farms
Down a two-lane road, where slag heaps tower and miners' shack homes crowd against each other, the labor unrest now gripping South Africa first caught ...
Labor heads say Obama backs them on 'fiscal cliff'
Labor leaders said Tuesday that President Barack Obama remains committed to preserving tax cuts for middle class families and ensuring the wealthy pay ...
Machinists union approves new Bombardier contract
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers approved a five-year contract with Bombardier Learjet on Saturday, ...
NHL, union meet for small, informal lunch
NHL labor talks took a break Saturday — an old-fashioned lunch break. Instead of returning to the negotiating table for a fifth straight day, ...
Labor: Tax the rich, don't touch safety nets
After two years of getting pummeled in Wisconsin, Indiana and other battleground states, leaders of the nation's big labor unions were beaming on ...
Lockheed Martin ousts new CEO for relationship
Lockheed Martin Corp. has ousted its president and future CEO over a relationship with a subordinate. The defense company said Friday that its board ...
American Airlines moves closer to pilot contract
American Airlines and its pilots union have reached an agreement in principle over a new contract, which could ultimately pave the way for the airline ...
Weekly US jobless claims fall to 355K last week
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week by 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 355,000, a possible sign of a healing job market.
EU workers strike over possible budget cuts
If an unprecedented debt crisis has been battering the European Union for over three years, isn't it time that EU employees take a sizeable pay cut ...
The economy Obama faces: Slow but gaining steadily
Some reward. Here's the assignment President Barack Obama has won with his re-election: Improve an economy burdened by high unemployment, stagnant ...
Where Obama stands on the issues
A look at where President Barack Obama stands on some of the issues that the country will face in his second term. Abortion and birth control: ...
Strike hits Greece in bid to derail austerity plan
Greek trade unions launched a general strike and nationwide protests on Tuesday against a new package of austerity measures, to be voted on this week, ...
Evidence points to police manipulation in SAfrica
South African police may have altered evidence and planted weapons after they shot dead 34 striking miners near Lonmin's Marikana mines in August, ...
Workers return to South Africa's Gold Fields mine
Gold Fields says that thousands of employees returned to work at the company's South Africa KDC East mine ending a 23-day strike. In a statement ...
Economy is still driving issue in election
The race for the White House is pretty much back where it started, after thousands of ads, billions of dollars in spending, two conventions and three ...
Limits on class-action lawsuits at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday in two cases in which businesses are trying to make it harder for customers or investors to band together ...
France told to give slow economy 'shock' therapy
France needs a "competitiveness shock" to restart its economy, a respected businessman said Monday as he presented a list of reforms, including a €30 ...
Union workers strike at Raley's supermarket chain
Union workers at Raley's supermarket chain, which operates more than 100 stores in California and Nevada, went on strike Sunday after last-ditch ...