Economy/Labor

By CALVIN WOODWARD and SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Calvin Woodward And Sam Hananel, Associated Press – Sat Mar 19, 2:25 pm ET WASHINGTON – Labor is roaring again, like in the old days. But it’s a wounded sound now. In the bitter aftermath of a showdown with Wisconsin’s governor, and as other states move to weaken public employee bargaining…

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 3/16/11 7:37 AM EDT Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency financial managers to break union contracts that struggling cities and school districts have with their workers. Following up on the state Senate’s passage of the bill last week, the House passed the bill 62-48 on Tuesday, sending the…

By ALEXANDER BURNS | 3/13/11 7:03 AM EDT The first round is over. Republican Gov. Scott Walker delivered a crushing defeat to government employee unions in their fight over labor rights in Wisconsin. But the passage of a law stripping away collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers has touched off a much larger political battle…

MADISON, Wis. — Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended on Madison again Saturday and vowed to focus on future elections now that contentious cuts to public worker union rights have become law. Protests have rocked the Capitol almost every day since Gov. Scott Walker…

As the Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali discovered in January, there is no surer route to political oblivion than to deny people access to affordable food. On Dec. 17, after Tunisian police assaulted a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi and seized his produce cart because, according to his family, he couldn’t afford to…

By Chris Stirewalt Published February 18, 2011 | FoxNews.com Democrats and Unions Badger GOP in Wisconsin “I’ve said all along the thousands of people who are storming the capitol have every right to be heard, but I’m not going to let them overshadow the voices of the millions of taxpayers in the state of Wisconsin who deserve…

International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war. Dominique Strauss-Kahn also said rising food prices could have “potentially devastating consequences” for poorer nations, and warned that Asia’s fast-growing economies faced a risk of…