When Ford and the United Auto Workers reached an agreement last month on retiree health care, it was touted as a model for the industry, one that could save the companies from faltering under the multibillion-dollar burden.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Business
Tags: agreement, Chrysler, Ford, obligations
His stimulus package adds $200 million to a fund that supports new teacher compensation systems.
In a major speech on education last week, President Obama echoed a call he’d made many times on the campaign trail: Reward excellent teaching with extra pay.
The high number of out-of-work residents collecting jobless benefits in Indiana has triggered an automatic 13-week extension of unemployment benefits. A look at the state’s extended benefits program:
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Business
Tags: benefits, Indiana, unemployment
The United States Congress is considering, in effect, denying workers the right to a secret ballot in union certification voting under the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
This legislation reveals real disdain and disrespect for individual workers.
If freedom means anything, it means being able to decide for yourself.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Business, Society
Tags: Congress, EFCA, employee
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will disregard possible job losses when deciding the fate of weapons programs and systems in the Pentagon’s 2010 budget, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
“It’s not the responsibility of this building to worry about the economic impact of budgetary decisions,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Economy
Tags: budget, choises, Pentagon
Fugitive radical turned Minnesota soccer mom Sara Jane Olson was released on Tuesday from a California prison, where she served nearly seven years for a pair of crimes committed with the radical Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970s.
The Jets have matched the Cleveland Browns’ offer sheet to safety Abram Elam, keeping him in New York’s secondary.
The NFL Network’s Adam Schefter this morning tossed a little cold water on Patriots Nation, saying he found it extremely unlikely the Patriots would trade for Panthers defensive lineman Julius Peppers.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Sports
Tags: Patriots, Peppers, Schefter
President Barack Obama nominated David Hamilton, an Indiana federal district judge with bipartisan support, for a U.S. appeals court seat in the new administration’s first judicial appointment.
Hamilton, 51, a former aide to then-Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana, is a 15-year veteran of the federal trial court in Indianapolis. He has backing from Bayh, now a Democratic U.S. senator, and Richard Lugar, Indiana’s Republican senator, the White House said. If confirmed by the Senate, Hamilton would serve on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: Hamilton, judge, Obama
President Obama defended his proposed $3.6 trillion budget on Tuesday against critics who say it is too ambitious, declaring that American families cannot always choose which crises to tackle first and neither can he as president.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Economy
Tags: budget, crisis, Obama
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