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Real estate giant Realogy Holdings Corp. has beat back a lawsuit alleging the firm artificially inflated its stock price by failing to disclose its “anticompetitive” practice of requiring homesellers to pay the buyer broker commissions “at inflated rates.”
In July 2019, investor plaintiff Sasa Tanaskovic filed a federal lawsuit seeking class-action status in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey alleging securities fraud against Realogy and a slew of its executives: former CEO Richard A. Smith, current CEO Ryan M. Schneider, former CFO Anthony E. Hull and current senior vice president, chief accounting officer and controller Timothy B. Gustavson.
Inside Antifa
I grew up admiring “the crusading syndicated labor columnist” Victor Riesel, as the New York Times called him in its 1995 obituary. In a scene with overtones of
On the Waterfront, Riesel had been blinded in an assault just after leaving Lindy’s restaurant in midtown Manhattan at 3:00 a.m. on April 5, 1956.
“An hour earlier,” the Times recalled, Riesel “had finished a radio broadcast in which he assailed the leadership of a Long Island local of the International Union of Operating Engineers.” The F.B.I. subsequently “arrested eight men and said the blinding was the work of garment district terrorists determined to silence Mr. Riesel.”
THOMAS CATENACCI CONTRIBUTOR Major trade unions including North America’s Building Trades Union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which en
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During his first day in office, Joe Biden signed an executive order revoking the permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The move was met with immediate backlash. The International Union of Operating Engineers, which endorsed Biden for President, even criticized the move.
One America’s Stephanie Myers spoke with Mark Mix, the President of the National Right to Work Foundation, to talk about the free legal aid being offered to workers impacted by Biden’s decision.
Rolling Meadows extends contract with public works employees
Rolling Meadows has inked a two-year extension to a labor contract with public works employees.
The city council this week unanimously approved the agreement with International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150. The pact calls for wage increases of 2.25% this year and 2% next year.
The new salaries represent the only changes to the original agreement, approved in July 2018 after the Illinois Labor Relations Board certified those city employees memberships in the union.
The new deal runs through 2022.