New Republican Bill Would Paralyze National Labor Relations Board
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
Category: Workers
Even in Palin Country, Raising the Minimum Wage Is Wildly Popular
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
Why Are Employers Checking Job Applicants’ Credit Histories?
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a...
Fight for 15 Gets into the Ring with Taco Bell
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
Paid Sick Days for Six Million Californians to Become Law
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
Country’s Newest Law Guaranteeing Workers Paid Sick Days Passes Unanimously
The city council in Passaic, New Jersey unanimously passed an ordinance requiring paid sick leave on Tuesday night with a...
U.S. fast-food workers arrested in protests for wage hike
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
California Legislature Passes Bill to Protect Temp Workers
The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they...
Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
Victory Declared as Supermarket Standoff Ends With Worker-Friendly CEO’s Return
Bringing to a close a summer-long supermarket standoff, a deal was reached late Wednesday to sell the majority stake of...
‘Unbalanced Recovery’: Wages Falling, Low-Paid Jobs Rising Across US
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
Subway workers in New Jersey get organized
Subway may claim to be the “leader in fast, healthy food,” but that alleged commitment to wellness often doesn’t extend...
Fast Food Worker To US Labor Secretary: ‘Either I Feed Myself Or I Feed My Son’
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Wage Theft: The New American Crime?
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
Is Wal-Mart Treating Workers Like Pop-Tarts?
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
Minimum wage laws aren’t just for workers with lowest wages
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
Jimmy John’s Accused Of ‘Systematic Wage Theft’
Jimmy John’s, the “freaky fast” sandwich staple of America’s college towns, is being sued by two former employees for what...
Pregnant Worker: This Is How Walmart Treated Me
Candis Riggins has a new baby. But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or...
Guitar Center Accused Of Unfair Labor Practices
WASHINGTON — More than a year after its initial election victory at a Guitar Center store, the union representing the...
This Congressman Tried to Live on the Minimum Wage
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
Labor Board Delivers Victory for Low-Wage McDonald’s Workers
In a ruling being hailed by union groups and wage rights advocates, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Tuesday...
Fast Food Workers Vow Civil Disobedience
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
States That Raised Minimum Wage Saw Faster Job Growth So Far In 2014
States with higher minimum wages saw faster job growth in the first six months of 2014 than states that have...
Equal Pay for Women Would Mean a More Secure Retirement for All
The link is simple and clear: Women earn less than men in the workplace – almost $450 billion less in...
People Who Work For Tips Are Twice As Likely To Live In Poverty
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
Restaurant CEOs Make More Money in Half a Day Than Their Employees Make in a Year
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
Alan Grayson To Force Republicans On The Record On Minimum Wage
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
Increasing Wages is an Effective Poverty Reduction Tool, Study Shows
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
Over One-Fourth of Men 25-34 Years Old Earned Poverty-Level Wages in 2013
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
Booming Business, But Falling Wages, in California Grocery Stores
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
This Is What Barely Making Ends Meet In America Sounds Like
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Executive pay is an insult to working families
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
MAP: How Fast Food Worker Strikes Ignited Across The Country
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
McDonald’s Protesters Arrested Outside Corporate Headquarters
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
The War on the Poor and Middle-Class Families (Video)
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
Here’s The Painful Truth About What It Means To Be ‘Working Poor’ In America
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
Fast-Food Strikes Go Global
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
UAW President Bob King: Americans are starting to catch on to ALEC’s anti-worker agenda
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Big Tobacco’s Secret Workforce: Child Farm Workers
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
Obscenely high CEO salaries are stark marker of U.S. wealth gap
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
LEAKED: Docs show how Wall Street giant guaranteed huge fees from taxpayers on risky pension investments
When you think of the term “public pension fund,” you probably imagine hyper-cautious investment strategies kept in check by no-nonsense...
The Big Tip that America’s Servers Never See
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
Inequality and the Global Race to the Bottom
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
The ‘Makers’ and the ‘Takers’
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Doubling the Minimum Wage Is on the Agenda in Seattle—and Nationally
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
