Jean Queen

Nearly everyone has a pair of jeans.

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Keeping Up With Jones

TopLine Employees Help Fight Hunger Amid the Rising Demand for CEAP’s Food Shelf

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Employees Wear Jeans on Fridays, Food Shelf Gains Generous Donations During Minnesota FoodShare Month

A man wearing a “Bronx Bomber” baseball cap, blue turtleneck and blue jeans, described as being between 35 and 45 years old, walked into the TD Bank at 800 Summit Ave. in Union City at 4:52 p.m. Monday and handed a teller a note demanding money and claiming to have a gun, according to today’s Jersey Journal.

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A man hands a note to the teller, walks away with $2G from Union City bank (The Jersey Journal)

The man poised to become the first new leader of baseball’s powerful union in more than a quarter-century is a ballplayer’s lawyer. Michael Weiner speaks plainly, wears jeans and sneakers to work — and after more than 20 years with the Major League Baseball Players Association, knows his stuff.

Continue here: Weiner likely to succeed Fehr on Wednesday (AP via Yahoo! Sports)

KALAMAZOO — A model breezed by wearing tight-fitting boot-cut jeans with decorative stitching on the front zipper, hips and back pockets.

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Lana’s Couture puts fashion on the menu at The Union in Kalamazoo (The Kalamazoo Gazette)

Barack Obama comes to Washington carrying a load of hopes and dreams, none more ardent than organized labor’s. Item No. 1 on the AFL-CIO’s legislative agenda: the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), also known as the card-check bill. Simply put, EFCA would streamline the process by which employees could decide to join a union. In most cases, a simple majority of signed cards would suffice; no need …

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A solution to the coming ‘card check’ battle (CNN Money)