Oil and gas workers in North Dakota are six times more likely to die on the job than their peers in other states as inexperienced workers join the states oil and gas boom.
Worker advocates applauded Obamas focus on the issue, including a request for funding to hire 300 new Labor Department investigators to ensure that workers are paid what theyre due.
Employer groups say the board, operating at full strength for the first time since President Barack Obama took office five years ago, is tilting toward unions.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. illegally retaliated against protesting U.S. workers, the National Labor Relations Board said in a complaint a union called one of the largest ever filed against a employer.
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