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...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Economic data: The US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly import and export statistics and the University of Michigan...
...That’s a key part of the argument being made in a new petition for trade relief and state support of the US shipbuilding industry under a so-called section 301 case filed by the United Steelworkers union...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Marc Filippino It’s Labor Day here in the United States. And one of the biggest worker stories in the country is the one coming out of Hollywood....
...Su previously served as California Secretary of Labor. She also received a MacArthur Grant for her work on worker’s rights....
...Abrams v United States in 1919 and when Louis Post, who briefly served as acting Labor Secretary, in 1920 refused to allow mass deportations of alleged anarchists....
...This month, the US State Department gave its approval for the potential sale of 24 Super Hercules military cargo aircraft to Australia, a deal worth almost $6.4bn....
...“God didn’t bring us this far to leave us,” said Jennifer Bates, an Amazon worker at the plant, and one of the leaders of a campaign for her colleagues to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store...
...“It’s simply unacceptable that state leaders are putting politics over the health and education of the students they took an oath to serve,” said Miguel Cardona, US education secretary....
...Preliminary results showed 67.3 per cent of California voters rejected the effort to recall the first-term Democrat from the governor’s office, according to the secretary of state....
...Last month, the Labor Department adopted new rules governing retirement savings plans aimed at discouraging the use of funds that take ESG considerations into account, although the final rules were weaker...
...Today the US Department of Labor releases data for the week ending March 12. (FT, WSJ) Earnings round-up The world’s largest maker of athletic gear, Nike, has results today....
...“It does seem that is the only language the regime will understand,” he told a webinar organised by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the US Department of State....
...The Department of Labor’s oversight of some pension funds could do the same. These are steps that would “raise the cost of capital for fossil [fuels] and lower it for greener energy”, says Mr Book....
...Mr Acosta will leave his post next week, and Mr Trump said that Pat Pizzella, the deputy labour secretary, will serve as acting head of the department....
...Mr Acosta was picked by President Donald Trump in 2017 to head the Department of Labor....
...The Pentagon plans to eject Turkey from the F-35 programme next month in response to its planned purchase of a Russian defence system, according to a letter from the acting US defence secretary....
...The revelation that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the department of home affairs, phoned senator Rex Patrick following last week’s raids on state broadcaster ABC and News Corp comes amid an outcry from civil...
...” — Patrick Shanahan, the US acting defence secretary, sought to calm fears of an imminent clash with Iran....
...On Monday, Patrick Shanahan, the acting secretary of defence, said that he had not yet been asked to prepare for a full withdrawal of troops from the region....
...The New York Times reported on Thursday that Mr Trump — in a meeting the previous morning — had told Patrick Shanahan, the acting defence secretary, that he did not want to go to war with Iran The White...
...Patrick Shanahan, acting US defence secretary, was forced last month to play down media reports that the president was demanding Nato allies pay the cost of hosting Washington’s forces, plus a 50 per cent...
...In New York the former Hong Kong home secretary Patrick Ho Chi-ping (see the court sketch of him in the centre below) was found guilty of scheming to pay millions of dollars in bribes to senior government...
...In 2015 President Barack Obama sought to bypass the SEC, using the Department of Labor to impose a fiduciary standard on those handling retirement savings....
...US jobs Job growth cooled sharply in September the labor department is expected to announce on Friday....
...In a court filing on Wednesday, the US Department of Labor said it had submitted a proposal to postpone elements of the so-called “fiduciary rule” for an additional 18 months....
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