Labor

Thomas Perez, chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, previously headed Maryland’s labor department.

Traditionally one of Democrats' biggest donors, unions are considering putting their financial weight behind Organizing for Action.

Washington’s most powerful business lobby and prominent union leaders are discussing a joint push on immigration reform this year.

Obama’s allies in labor are targeting centrists in both parties to pull the “fiscal cliff” talks to the left.

The head of the nation’s largest labor federation blasted GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney for pandering to coal country, saying President Obama would better support miners’ rights and jobs.

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said Romney’s coal country plaudits are a farce. He pointed to Romney’s time at the helm of Bain Capital, which he said led to outsourcing that trampled middle-class jobs. At the same time, Trumka said, Romney in 2003 had opposed coal as governor of Massachusetts.

“Those EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] regulations were ordered by the Supreme Court as a result of a lawsuit by Mitt Romney’s state when he was governor,” Trumka said. “If there is a war on coal, it starts and ends with Mitt Romney.”

Lawsuits have successfully shut down the only two NLRB regulations put forward during the Obama administration.

For 13 years, Colleen Kelley has served as one of Washington’s leading advocates for federal workers.

Lafe Solomon has learned to email with a subpoena in mind.

Powerful Washington groups want exemptions from an ethics rule prohibiting federal workers from attending lobbyists' events.

Lawmakers and agriculture groups are angry about new Labor Department regulations limiting young people's work on farms.