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Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’ & Jason Reitman’s ‘Labor Day’ Get New Release Dates

Ridley Scott's Moses epic 'Exodus' and 'Labor Day,' the latest from director Jason Reitman (Up In the Air), get new release dates.

A Devil of a Problem for Labor in the City of Angels

AP Photo,File T omorrow, Angelenos go to the polls to select a new mayor. Well, some Angelenos—actually, not a hell of a lot. Indeed, turnout is projected to be so low that the winner may get fewer votes than Fletcher Bowron did in winning...Show More Summary

3rd Circuit joins D.C. Circuit in slamming NLRB appointment

By Carlyn Kolker, Reuters The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said an appointment President Barack Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board was invalid, becoming the second circuit to question the validity of the labor board's decisions.

State labor board moves to limit UC Medical Center strike

KTVU.com State labor officials will move to limit the number of University of California medical center employees who can go out on strike next week at facilities including UC San Francisco, university officials said Friday.

NLRB Update: Another Court of Appeals Dismantles Union Bosses’ Radical Labor Board

NewsRoundup & Open Thread for Monday, May 20, 2013

Today's only homing pigeon news: Yes, it's time again to tackle NJ's outdated laws. Labor unions form NJ Super PAC NJ Workers' Voices, a NJ chapter of AFL-CIO's PAC will be an interesting new player in NJ races. Surprise, surprise - Christie oversold his revenue projections again We'll fall short by $1Billion. Show More Summary

Impact Sourcing Creates Jobs and Advances CSR in Africa

Africa will soon have the largest workforce on earth, but the economy isn’t creating jobs fast enough to meet a growing labor supply. As our industries advance from analog to digital, there's plenty of work to go around. With impact sourcing, we can bring digital work to disadvantaged communities. Show More Summary

EMRS: Labor 28, Liberal 54, Greens 14 in Tasmania

EMRS has the Tasmanian Liberals with a thumping albeit slightly diminished lead, and shows a substantial drop in support for the Greens.

Elizabeth Kucinich: God Did Not Write the Farm Bill

Don't want a children's toy containing lead paint manufactured with child labor in your state? Congressman King and the House Agriculture Committee say "tough." Want the workers in your state to have a better chance? Your state won't have the right to choose. The Feds are encroaching.

Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing

Ed Cunningham, an ESPN sports analyst, tapped the crowdfunding service Kickstarter to finish what has been a nearly six-year labor of love.

The vicious ignorance of Helen Polley

Labor Senator Helen Polley is as hysterical and vicious as she…

Column - Black conservatives against the New Racism

SIGNING up former Labor president Warren Mundine helps Tony Abbott show he’s ending the…

Labor now swears it will cut spending like it never has before

Henry Ergas says Labor’s promise to return the Budget to surplus is three years is

Raising the GST

In a sane world, Labor would also be contemplating the possibility of raising the GST. It seems that Joe Hockey, who circle-squaring challenge seems to get greater every time Tony Abbott opens his mouth, is at least broaching the idea, [...]

Nielsen says Labor boosed by Budget, Newspoll no

I am surprised. A Budget like that gives Julia Gillard a boost - or was it her tears? The…

The Rising Cost of Labor -- a Triumph for Capitalism

David Boaz Articles on page A7 and A8 of Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, about rising wages in China and France, confirm something that I learned from Julian Simon. As the Journal reported: The 14% wage rise for private-sector workers...Show More Summary

Job market gains could lead Fed to taper QE3 early

(Reuters) - The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove fleeting.

Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets

Paul Jay of the Real News Network interviews Heiner Flassbeck, who served as director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, known as UNCTAD. He was a vice minister at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn in 1998 and '99. He's now a professor of economics at Hamburg University.

Republican obstruction cost this man his job and house

Senate Republicans continue on the road to intentionally shutting down the National Labor Relations Board this summer. The labor board, which protects workers' right to organize or not as they choose, can't function without a three-member quorum, which it won't have once a current member's term expires. Show More Summary

Labor no worse off after the Budget

Good news for Labor. A Budget that should have utterly destroyed its credibility actually leaves it no worse off: WAYNE Swan’s decision…