Employment
  • Still no deal to end Chicago teachers strike

    Still no deal to end Chicago teachers strike

    By Renita D. Young, Reuters

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago public school students will stay out of class for a fifth day on Friday, after the teachers union and the nation's third-largest school district negotiated long into the...

  • Lufthansa union makes strike threat before mediation

    Lufthansa union makes strike threat before mediation

    By Reuters

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa's cabin crew union UFO threatened further strikes if mediation talks scheduled for next week fail to yield a result, German weekly magazine Focus said on Saturday...

  • A Glimmer of Hope for Obama in Jobs Report?

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The unemployment rate dipped to 8.1 percent in August for the worst possible reason: 368,000 Americans dropped out of the workforce last month and another 213,000 never even bothered to join it, a...

  • U.S. Adds Just 96K Jobs in August as Hiring Slows

    By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

    Nonfarm payrolls increased only 96,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, it was largely due to Americans...

  • Lufthansa makes concession in cabin crew pay row

    Lufthansa makes concession in cabin crew pay row

    By Peter Maushagen and Victoria Bryan, Reuters

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa on Friday offered permanent contracts to some temporary cabin crew in an attempt to end a run of strikes which has caused the cancellation of over 1,000 flights and...