LABOR BILL WARNING: Wal-Mart has summoned store managers and department heads to mandatory meetings where they were warned that a Democratic win in the White House in November would be tantamount strengthening the hand of unions, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The retailer has opposed the...
In a new effort to keep illegal immigrants out of the workforce, the Bush Administration has ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to verify their employees' legal working status. The executive order will require thousands of firms to use a government system called E-Verify to check workers'...
WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday narrowly defeated a Democratic attempt to give unemployed Americans an extra three months of jobless benefits, after the White House threatened to veto the bill. But Democratic leaders said they will bring the bill back for a second vote on Thursday. ...
WASHINGTON, May 23 Kyodo The White House said Friday that it wants to see Myanmar's military junta make good on its reported promise to allow all foreign aid workers to deliver relief directly to its people. ''We hope it is true, because the United States simply...
Kucinich drops White House bid CLEVELAND - Democrat Dennis Kucinich is abandoning his second, long-shot bid for the White House as he faces a tough fight to hold onto his other job -- U.S. congressman. In an interview with Cleveland's Plain Dealer, the six-term...
November 6, 2007 Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for coming. Good morning. Thank you for coming by the White House. I'm proud to be with you. I'm impressed by the fact that the men and women in this room lead some of our finest companies and trade...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have allowed labor organizations to unionize workplaces without secret-ballot elections. Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act, ending labor's chance to win its top legislative priority...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have allowed labor organizations to unionize workplaces without secret ballot elections. Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act, ending labor's chance to win its top...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would allow labor unions to organize workplaces without a secret ballot election. Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act, ending organized labor's chance to win its top...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Wednesday to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a broad bipartisan immigration bill. A new guest worker program would be capped at 200,000 a year under the proposal, which passed...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Wednesday to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a broad bipartisan immigration bill. A new guest worker program would be capped at 200,000 a year under the proposal, which passed...
WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats were nearing a deal Tuesday on a sweeping immigration overhaul that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at legal status but strictly limit future arrivals from staying in the U.S. Senators and White House officials negotiating through the afternoon and into...
WASHINGTON -- The White House is considering making it easier for people to obtain top-secret security clearances by eliminating some time-consuming background checks, says the Bush administration's point man on clearances. The goal, says Clay Johnson III, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget,...
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Toby Chaudhuri, +1-202-587-1653, or Noreen Nielsen, +1- 603-858-2607, both for the Campaign for America's Future WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Bush is expected to hail the state of the union as strong tonight, but for Americans worrying about how to make ends meet, the country is...
By Gaiutra Bahadur Two White House emissaries, in town this morning to swear in new United States citizens, took the opportunity to stump for the administration's politically thorny proposal to make illegal immigrants temporary guest workers and, possibly, citizens. On the day President Bush was to deliver an Oval...
Byline: Resource News International WINNIPEG, MB, May 04, 2006 Resource News International via COMTEX -- The following is a quick glimpse of the news making the headlines in Canada. BIRD FLU COULD SHUT US-CANADA BORDER WASHINGTON - The United States said...
WASHINGTON AFP — The White House renewed its call for a top-to-bottom overhaul of US immigration laws, including a guest worker program for millions of undocumented workers, as hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrated for immigration law reform. "The president is focused on continuing to work with senators to...
WASHINGTON -- We're not the same nation we were just a decade ago. While a lot of what the federal government does drives a lot of people bananas, the statistics it compiles about demographic trends are insightful. We know that Latinos, the fastest-growing segment of the...
WASHINGTON AFP — The White House said that its hands were tied on New York City's crippling transit strike and urged transport workers and city officials to work through their differences. "I think it is unfortunate, and we hope that the two sides can resolve their differences so that...
KERNERSVILLE, United States AFP — Embattled US President George W. Bush tried to soothe the economic worries of a skeptical US public, amid polls that show broad pessimism about the future despite some encouraging data. There's "no better place to talk about our economy than a place where people...
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