Economy
September 28, 2010 -
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Months-long negotiations between Delta Pride Catfish Inc. and members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1529, have defused a potential strike by hundreds of workers at the company's plant in Indianola, Miss., and with plants operated by a partner firm in Isola and Belzona, Miss., all in the perennially poor Mississippi Delta. "The strike vote woke them up," said Lonnie Sheppard, president of UFCW
September 27, 2010 -
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 engineering and construction firm based in Louisiana, to improve the way it responds to safety complaints from nuclear plant workers.
September 20, 2010 -
BP successfully killed its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico but the effects of the oil spill can already be seen in coastal communities and ecosystems.
September 17, 2010 -
As the Environmental Protection Agency considers how best to regulate the disposal of toxic coal ash, a group of institutional investors representing over $240 billion in assets has sent a lett