News Overview

By host on 9/29/2010 2:46 PM

Two Employment Insurance measures, which temporarily increased the number of weeks Employment Insurance benefits were payable to claimants, came to an end on September 12.

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By host on 9/29/2010 10:39 AM

The Senate voted 56-43 on Sept. 23 to reject a joint resolution (S.J. Res. 30)—which had slim chances of becoming law—seeking to revoke a National Mediation Board rule dealing with the board's representation election procedures for airline and railroad workers. The resolution of disapproval, offered by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), received the support of 40 Republican senators and three Democratic senators—Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) did not vote.

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By host on 9/2/2010 12:41 PM

In a Labor Day video message (also available in Spanish here) for America’s workers, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says that in her travels around the country, “Many of you have told me you want an America that ‘produces things again.”

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