FRENCH GOVERNMENT PREDICTS ROSY FUTURE (IN 2025)
By LORI HINNANT French President Francois Hollande, center, and government members, sit, at the start of a government seminar held at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday Aug. 19, 2013.…
Labor issues
AP-NORC POLL: PARENTS BACK HIGH-STAKES TESTING
By PHILIP ELLIOTT and JENNIFER AGIESTA FILE – In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Burgess-Peterson Elementary School principal Robin Robbins, center, meets with students during an after-school study program…
JUDGE GRANTS BAY AREA TRANSIT STRIKE REPRIEVE
By SUDHIN THANAWALA Attorneys Sharon O’Grady, left, and Tamar Pachter represent the Governor Jerry Brown in the proceedings Sunday Aug. 11, 2013, in San Francisco. San Francisco Superior Court Judge…
WILL FAST-FOOD PROTESTS SPUR HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE?
By SHARON COHEN Fast-food worker Michelle Osborn, 23, of Flint, Mich. shouts out chants as she and a few dozen others strike outside of a McDonald’s restaurant on Wednesday, July…
SENATE READY FOR SHOWDOWN ON OBAMA PICK FOR ATF
By ALAN FRAM FILE – In this June 11, 2013 file photo, B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms…
BANGLADESH BUILDING COLLAPSE VICTIMS BURIED
By CHRIS BLAKE and FARID HOSSAIN Army personnel watch as workers toil in the collapsed garment factory building, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Emergency workers hauling…
COLLAPSED BUILDING OWNER MAY FACE 7 YEARS IN JAIL
By FARID HOSSAIN and CHRIS BLAKE A Bangladeshi rescuer looks out from a hole cut in the concrete as he looks for survivors at the site of a building that…
IN ALA., GOP DICTATES NEW LANDSCAPE FOR EDUCATION
By BILL BARROW FILE – In this April 11, 2013 file photo, Alabama Education Association Executive Director Dr. Henry Mabry addresses members of the Alabama Education Retirees Association at a…