In the coming days, one of President Obama’s closest labor allies could take the stand in a fierce trial pitting the Service Employees International Union against a rebel breakaway. But there’s a bit of a backstory between SEIU and the

A $3.35 million settlement has been reached in a gender-discrimination lawsuit by a woman who was forced out of the Fresno’s Fire Department’s training academy, the woman’s attorney said. Attorney Dan Siegel, representing Michelle Maher, said he and a representative