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If you missed it, the Government Accountability Office issued a report of its investigation into the Department of Labor’s enforcement of wage and hour laws (that’s overtime and minimum wage stuff, mostly). It was not complimentary.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has responded. Full text of the press release inside.

AIG’s Edward Liddy says the employment contracts signed by derivative execs are forcing him to pay them millions in bonuses. This is still the guy who canned 6,000 agents at Allstate, right? And he saw the auto bailout in the news?

So what the @#$# is going on?

President Obama laid out his education reform plan yesterday, and a litany of organizations of educators and education reformers have already given their take on it.

At issue is the President’s support for merit-based pay, which seems to be making it tough for American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to pick a side.

After weeks of delay that had very little to do with her, and very much to do with Politics (capital P), the Senate finally approved Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor.

Her pro-union stances and affiliations had become a lightning rod for Republicans hoping to land the first blow in the battle over broad revisions to the National Labor Relations Act.

GM and Chrysler are set to issue their multi-hundred-page “restructuring reports” to Congress tonight, but already insiders are pointing to the United Auto Workers’ hard line on concessions as a reason the Plans will fail.

After major concessions less than 2 years ago, and a misrepresentation of what the fight’s about in the media, Tim Eavenson walks a mile in the union’s shoes and proposes that the Auto Bailout may have been doomed from the start.