SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – As a mother of six, including a newborn, Amy Stobart has a lot on her plate to manage. She home schools her ten and five-year-old boys and has to take care of her three-month-old boy. Two weeks ago Amy went to her doctor’s for a routine checkup and got the worst […]
They say neither rain nor snow keeps the mail carrier from making his rounds. But a dispute and continued confusion between a developer, builder, and the U.S. Postal Service means the mail isn’t getting delivered in one Bonaire neighborhood. Amy Chamberlin says no mail has been delivered to her family since they moved in to […]
02/03/17 Trump Imposes New Sanctions on Iran in Wake of Missile Tests Over 12,000 tweets are calling for Trump’s assassination States Are Cracking Down on the Biggest Protests Since ’60s Disney to Settle Animators’ Wage-Fixing Case for $100M Angie’s List Can’t Have Ex-Workers’ GPS Devices Iran tested nuclear-capable cruise missile Iran, Puzzled by Trump, Treads […]
INDIANAPOLIS (Courthouse News) – 2/2/17 – Ruling against the online review giant in an overtime wage case, a federal judge found that Angie’s List cannot force three of its former sales representatives to surrender personal laptops and cellphones they used for work. The ruling is a response to a discovery request from the crowd-sourced review company, the […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Courthouse News) – 2/2/17 – Walt Disney Pictures has agreed to shell out $100 million to settle animation workers’ claims that they were victims of an industry-wide wage fixing scheme. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh must still grant preliminary approval of the settlement amount proposed by the four “Disney Defendants” in the case, which […]
2/02/17 – Large mailer organizations such as The American Catalog Mailers Association (press release below) and The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (press release below) fully support H.R. 756, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2017 – and, as it looks as of today, so do postal unions. So, what are we missing here? Here’s […]
NALC: Bipartisan postal reform bills reintroduced On Jan. 31, House Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) reintroduced the Postal Service Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 756), and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA), a member of the OGR Committee, reintroduced the Postal Service Financial Improvement Act (H.R. 760). The OGR Committee has jurisdiction […]
WASHINGTON (Courthouse News) – 2/1/17 – At a partisan slug fest Tuesday over the federal health care law, House Republicans blasted waste, fraud and abuse, while Democrats focused on the human cost of repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without a replacement. The hearing came just days after Mike DeBonis of the Washington […]
WASHINGTON (Courthouse News) – 2/01/17 – Former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson won approval by the Senate on Wednesday to serve as secretary of state under President Donald Trump. The 56-43 vote gives Trump his sixth nominee, with the Senate having most recently confirmed Elaine Chao to lead the Department of Transportation. Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today kicked off this year’s Black History Month observances by dedicating the Dorothy Height Forever stamp during a ceremony at Howard University. The 40th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors Height, a tireless activist, who dedicated her life to fighting for racial and gender equality. She became one of […]