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Dave Jamieson

Official Resigns After Investigation Involving Former Romney Adviser

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.28.2012

A member of the National Labor Relations Board resigned quietly over the holiday weekend after investigators found that he had leaked sensitive board ...

Republican Leaves Labor Board Amid Leak Allegations

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.28.2012

WASHINGTON -- A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned, the agency announced Sunday. Terence...

Dave Jamieson

Union Puts Bullseye Back On Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.25.2012

Late last week, an administrative law judge in New York ruled that big-box retailer Target had violated labor law in the runup to a union election at ...

Dave Jamieson

AFL-CIO Brings Major Labor Official On Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.22.2012

WASHINGTON -- The AFL-CIO announced Tuesday that Craig Becker, a former appointee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), will be returning to t...

What's It All About, Romney?

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.14.2012

Leo W. Gerard

For Mitt Romney, it's about exploiting the 99 percent for the profit of the 1 percent. That vulture capitalist philosophy is bad enough in the business world, but it's dead wrong for public service.

Dave Jamieson

Romney Adviser Left Amid Ethics Investigation: Aide

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.26.2012

WASHINGTON -- A top labor adviser to GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stepped down from his volunteer role with the campaign not long before he wa...

Dave Jamieson

GOP Anti-Union Measure Fails In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.24.2012

WASHINGTON -- In a modest victory for labor groups, a rare measure that would have blocked new federal rules considered favorable to unions failed Tue...

Jennifer Bendery

Senate Republicans Join Legal Challenge Of Obama's Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.17.2012

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are joining a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of some of President Barack Obama's recess appointments in Ja...

The Irrelevance of Mitt Romney

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.17.2012

Paul Abrams

There is only one thing important to know about Mitt Romney, and we already know it. He has no deep convictions. Without convictions, he is not going to step in front of the machine that brought him the White House, his cherished dream, and say "no."

Senate Gets Something Done

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 04.10.2012

WASHINGTON — For a brief moment in a season of partisan rancor, the Democratic leader of the Senate and his Republican counterpart hit the pause...

Dave Jamieson

GOP's Labor Website Infuriates Unions

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.04.2012

WASHINGTON -- Union activists generally don't consider House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to be an ally in labor struggle...

Dave Jamieson

Dems Turn Up Heat On Romney Adviser In Ethics Probe

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.02.2012

WASHINGTON -- Following the release of a potentially embarrassing inspector general's report, Democrats in the House and Senate are pressing for more ...

Dave Jamieson

Romney Adviser Caught In Ethics Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.26.2012

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of an inspector general investigation at the federal labor board, labor unions are calling on the Mitt Romney campaign to di...

Dave Jamieson

Obama Labor Board Appointee Shared Insider Secrets, Violating Ethics Code, Report Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- An inspector general's investigation has found that a recent appointee to the National Labor Relations Board violated the agency's ethic...

Dave Jamieson

GOP Trying To Bury Investigation: House Dem

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.08.2012

WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Republicans Thursday accusing the GOP of trying to keep portions of an investigatio...

Pomona Firings Show the Paradox of Immigrant Labor Organizing

Nathan Robinson | Posted 04.10.2012

Nathan Robinson

Fixing immigration and fixing labor are inseparable. Immigration reform could give increasing freedom to workers to organize without fear, but without vigorous protections on organizing, employers still hold all the cards.

'Occupy The Super Bowl' Will Protest Indiana's Right-To-Work Law

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.03.2012

"Occupy Wall Street" is heading to the Super Bowl. Labor groups are teaming up with the Occupy movement for a series of high-profile protests in In...

Obama Official Promises Push For New Pro-Union Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.26.2012

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board hopes to have another round of regulations in place by the end of the year that ...

Senate GOP's Move Awaited In Big Fight With Obama

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 03.23.2012

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's appointments to two key agencies during the Senate's year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return ...

Janell Ross

Workers' Right To Sue Employers In Flux

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 01.18.2012

In 2010, Stephen Brown was living in York, Pa., and needed work. Most days Labor Ready, a temporary staffing company, had it. The company slogan highl...

The Senate's Holiday

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.14.2012

Christopher Brauchli

The Republicans' newest way of countering criticism that Congress spends more time on recess than it does working occurred when it went home for the Christmas holidays.

Bold Obama Move Gets Legal Backing

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 03.13.2012

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is publicly rebutting Republican criticism of the legality of President Barack Obama's recent recess appoint...

Recess Appointments: Backlash to Blackmail

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.10.2012

Leo W. Gerard

Obama rebuffed Republican abuse. He called a legislative session that opens for three minutes every 72 hours while 99 Senators are vacationing what it is: recessed. And he made the appointments the country has needed for a long time.

Well Done, Mr. President! Now About That Foreclosure Fraud Settlement ...

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 03.06.2012

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Congratulations, Mr. President. This week you followed your increasingly populist rhetoric with some decisive action on behalf of the middle class.

Romney Fires 'Un-American' Charge

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.06.2012

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is bashing the National Labor Relations Board in a new South Carolina ad airing the da...