It's 7:55 a.m. and miner Javier Avarca arrives in the early morning chill to the San Jose mine in Chile to begin a 12-hour shift.
When President Barack Obama rolled out a $50-billion six-year infrastructure proposal Monday, thousands who gathered in Milwaukee were eager to hear his message.
Sen. Patty Murray blasted BP on Thursday for failing to attend her subcommittee's hearing on oil and gas worker safety.
President Barack Obama says the current laws surrounding oil are inadequate and need to be updated.
CNNMoney: Oil falls near $40updated: Mon Feb 02 2009 15:34:00
Oil prices fell Monday as investors remained concerned about a deepening recession and its impact on global demand for energy.
Oil prices rose Friday as the possibility of an oil workers' strike in the United States weighed on investors.
Worldwide crude steel output dropped 1.2% in 2008, as global demand for manufactured goods fell in the second half of the year, according to an industry report released Thursday.
Sarah Palin's husband is a union member who races – and occasionally crashes – snowmobiles
Gov. Sarah Palin says she will accept the party nomination for Republican Vice Presidential nominee.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee, on Wednesday night addressed the 2008 Republican National Convention. Here is the text of the speech:
Mikhail Glikberg remembers when he made a decent living as a taxi driver in Boston. He could work a 12-hour shift and take home up to $80 a day after expenses.
Time.com: Big Labor Goes Globalupdated: Tue Jul 01 2008 11:00:00
America's largest private-sector union will be joining up with Britain's Unite to form the world's first transatlantic union
General Motors and Ford Motor are seeking to use their stock as at least part of the way to fund a multi-billion dollar union-controlled fund to pay retirees' future health care costs, according to a published report.
Democratic White House hopeful John Edwards, who has made a strong push for union support on the campaign trail, picked up two major endorsements Monday, making him the leading candidate for labor endorsements in the presidential field.
The United Steelworkers union said Friday it had reached a tentative contract with bankrupt U.S. auto-parts maker Delphi Corp. that covers about 900 workers at two Ohio plants.
Bankrupt auto parts manufacturer Dana Corp. reached labor deals with the United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers unions Friday, which the company said will lead to private equity firm Centerbridge Capital Partners and its affiliates to invest up to $500 million in cash in its operations.
How about the Dogs of the Dow theory? Wow! Stocks like Merck and especially GM are barn-burners this year after sucking wind in '05. Lesson? Companies with real businesses often come back.
Some 15,000 members of the United Steelworkers went on strike at 16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants in the United States and Canada Thursday after the union rejected the company's latest contract proposal.
Stocks struggled Thursday morning as investors tried to digest a slew of economic reports a day after the Federal Reserve said it was unsure about future interest rate hikes.
You can't blame Douglas Fraser for getting a little excited. "When was the last time anyone from Fortune called about the labor movement?" says the former United Auto Workers president, now teachin...
President Bush has proposed that corn-based ethanol be mixed with gasoline to make a supposedly cleaner fuel for city use. The funny thing is that the Administration's own Environmental Protection ...
Sometimes unions have the last laugh. Although the United Auto Workers seem to have caved in to Caterpillar CEO Don Fites's threat to replace its members with nonunion workers, hiring permanent rep...
In the 1980s, labor leaders talked glowingly of partnerships with management. But bitter strikes by the United Auto Workers at Caterpillar and the United Steelworkers at Lukens, a Pennsylvania stee...
When the recovery gets going this spring, the hopes for good times will be dashed on at least one count: Neither the drag of recession nor rising unemployment has defeated inflation. The culprit is...
Fortune: BONUS BATTLESupdated: Mon Nov 06 1989 00:01:00
A fat Christmas bonus just isn't enough. That's the message that unions are increasingly sending to management -- and often to their own members as well. At Boeing, which has been hit by a strike o...
Wall Street, which originally feared that the new labor contract between Bethlehem Steel and the United Steelworkers would send up prices, has changed its mind. It likes the deal. Clarence Morrison...
How's this for a story line: Once upon a time the American steel industry was big and mighty. Steel's managers walked with a swagger and had enough clout to go nose to nose with Presidents, unions,...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon Jul 07 1986 00:01:00
U.S. Steel opened contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers of America. The USW has already granted concessions to LTV, National Steel Corp., and Bethlehem. U.S. Steel, however, is stronge...
The first quarter gave Big Steel some unwelcome leverage in its labor negotiations. Bethlehem Steel reported a loss of $91.8 million, its 15th deficit in the past 17 quarters. U.S. Steel actually t...
IN A BACK SHOP at Steel of West Virginia's plant in Huntington, members of the United Steelworkers of America spend spare moments building an electromagnetic hoist for stacking newly made steel bea...
THE PARTNERS in a Wall Street merger that have been noted for not cooperating are finally acting like a team. Investment bank Salomon Brothers and commodity trader Phibro, which merged in 1981, rec...
The first major U.S. steel strike in 26 years got under way when 8,200 members of the United Steelworkers walked off the job at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., the nation's seventh-largest steel c...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon May 27 1985 00:01:00
InterNorth of Omaha will spend $2.3 billion to acquire Houston Natural Gas, creating a 37,000-mile pipeline system -- the longest in the U.S. Blaming losses and foreign competition, major U.S. stee...
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