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Los Angeles Lakers' Derek Fisher, center, president of the NBA players union, is joined by NBA players, union executive director Billy Hunter, right, and and other NBA players during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, in Las Vegas. Players will remain unified and calm in what could be a lengthy pursuit of a labor agreement, union Fisher says. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Annelie Ingvarsson (left) waits in line to talk to potential employers during a National Career Fairs job fair on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Joe Ashton is vice president of the United Auto Workers, which was trying to nail down the terms of a new contract with the Big Three automakers in Detroit. Talks were going down to the wire. (Associated Press)
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"I'm very concerned our president has pursued labor policies that are destructive to industry, to hiring and to job growth," said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate. (Associated Press)
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A pair of shoes and a mirror sit on the desk in an office cubicle at the administration building. Employees moved documents from the building for safekeeping. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Cowlitz County, Wash., sheriff grabs a union worker by the throat as police move in on several hundred union workers blocking a grain train in Longview, Wash., on Wednesday. Longshoremen blocked the train as part of an escalating dispute about labor at the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview.
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Wal-Mart is rolling out a layaway option from Oct. 17 through Dec. 16 after ending the pay-as-you-go plans in 2006. The company is introducing the option at a time when many of its shoppers are trying to cope with high unemployment and rising costs. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Cowlitz County Sheriff grabs a union worker by the throat as police move in on several hundred union workers blocking a grain train in Longview, Wash., on Wednesday. Longshoremen blocked the train as part of an escalating dispute about labor at the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Kenyan teachers march in the streets of Nairobi on Tuesday. More than 200,000 teachers went on strike to protest the diversion of government funds meant to hire more teachers to alleviate overcrowding of classrooms, said the chairman of the country's biggest teachers union.
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A worker leaves with a moving box Wednesday at Solyndra in Fremont, Calif. The solar-panel manufacturer, which received a $535 million loan from the U.S. government, has announced layoffs of 1,100 workers and plans to file for bankruptcy. A weak economy and strong overseas competition have proved insurmountable. (Associated Press)
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"Giving everybody a shot, everybody a chance to share in America's prosperity, from the factory floor to the boardroom. That's what unions are all about," President Obama told a rally in Detroit Monday following a parade of union workers on Labor Day. He said his administration is "fighting for good jobs with good wages." (Associated Press)
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"I hope his comeback is successful. I look forward to good years from him." Chris Austin, Montgomery County, federal employee
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Eric Rosenkrantz waits on the unemployment insurance phone at WorkSource Oregon on Sept. 2, 2011, in Tualatin, Ore. (Associated Press)
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In this photo from Aug. 31, 2011, some of an estimated 4,000 people wait to enter a job fair called the "For The People Jobs Initiative," where job seekers met employers, job counselors, skills trainers and others at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
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In this Aug. 31, 2011, photo, dozens of employer booths are seen at a job fair called the "For The People Jobs Initiative," where job seekers met employers, job counselors, skills trainers and others, at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles. Employers added no net workers last month and the unemployment rate was unchanged, a sign that many were nervous the U.S. economy is at risk of slipping into another recession. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Alonzo McKelvin, an employee with the Department of Public Works, tosses sandbags into a pile so that they will be ready to go into residents' cars at the Department of Public Works in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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D.C. Department of Public Works employees Lonzo Pickett (left) and Cameron Washington (center) help load sandbags into a city resident's vehicle at the department headquarters in southeast Washington on Aug. 26, 2011, a day before Hurricane Irene was expected to hit the D.C. region. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Alonzo McKelvin, an employee of D.C.'s Department of Public Works, tosses sandbags into a pile in preparation for distribution to city residents at the department headquarters in southeast Washington on Aug. 26, 2011, a day before Hurricane Irene was expected to hit the D.C. region. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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D.C. Department of Public Works employee Lonzo Pickett (center) helps coworkers load sandbags into city residents' vehicles at the department headquarters in southeast Washington on Aug. 26, 2011, a day before Hurricane Irene was expected to hit the D.C. region. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Job seekers wait in line at a 2011 Congressional Black Caucus job fair. President Obama neglected stubbornly high black unemployment, says Raynard Jackson. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Bob Andres)
