WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board is moving closer to approving rules that would speed the pace of union elections. But the lone Republican member on the board has threatened to resign his post and quash the entire process.
Republicans lawmakers in the House are also poised to approve a bill aimed at short-circuiting the rules, which could make it more difficult for businesses to resist union …
Omar Arellano scored the equalizer in the second half as Mexican club Chivas drew 1-1 with Universidad de Chile in the first leg of the Copa Libertadores semifinals Tuesday.
Rafael Olarra opened the scoring for Universidad with a header at the back post in the 48th minute against the run of play. Arellano headed in Alberto Medinas corner in the 52nd to …
Zella Bardsley brings her mixed-metals quilts to Art Source Gallery
This First Thursday, Zella Bardsley will be commemorating a traditionally female art form of quilting in her own feminist way: with metal and a blowtorch. Her patterns aren't those handed down from generation to generation, they are instead her "own, new definition of the metal quilt." Even though Bardsley's definition varies from the norm, she maintains many of the typical quilting conventions such as weaving her stories of joy, pain, gossip and laughter into her works. She also uses castaways, combines new pieces and says she "pushes the quilt form to suit her own desire to construct pieces that she finds …
Police have rescued 10 South Korean women who were forced to work in a Sydney brothel as part of a sex slavery syndicate, officials said Friday.
Four Australian men and women as well as a South Korean woman were arrested in Sydney early Friday and charged with multiple offenses relating to a sex trafficking business that was making 3 million Australian dollars (US$2.8 million; euro1.8 million) a year, Australian Federal Police and the Immigration Department said in a joint statement.
The victims, rescued by police Thursday, were receiving counseling and government support, Immigration official Lyn O'Connell said.
A decision has yet to be made …
Haiti's government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the country's devastating earthquake over, the United Nations said Saturday.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 132 people were pulled from the rubble alive by international search and rescue teams.
Spokeswoman Elizebeth Byrs told The Associated Press that rescue teams still searching through the rubble would not be prevented from carrying out whatever work they felt necessary. "It doesn't mean the government will order them to stop. In case there is the slightest sign of life, they will act."
But she added: "Except for miracles, …
The savings and loan mess may still be with us when yourgrandchildren are old because it's more complex and intractable thanpoliticians let on.
To be sure, there may be no real problems for most depositors,whose savings are insured up to $100,000. But depositors also paytaxes, and taxpayers ultimately will foot the bill. So willborrowers because the cost of paying off insured deposits and losseson bad thrift assets will make loans scarcer and dearer.
Estimates of the S&L clean-up cost keep growing, from thegovernment's initial estimate of $157 billion over 10 years to anestimate widely accepted today of $300 billion.
And Friday, when officials of the …
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines said an early peace pact with the government is unlikely, citing remaining key differences.
Government negotiators on Wednesday ended three days of talks with the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Malaysia, which has been brokering the yearslong negotiations. Both sides agreed to hold another round of talks next month.
Government negotiator Marvic Leonen said in a statement Thursday that the talks "have inched forward but not fast enough." He has hoped a peace pact could be concluded within the next three months to allow it to be enforced and adjusted if necessary before President Benigno …
