Fast Food Franchise Owners Seek to Stop Campaign for Labor Rights
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People’s Climate March...
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
If you own a share of a company, how much information about the company are you entitled to? That is...
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a...
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
In Oklahoma, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her brothers grew up in “an America that invested in kids like us...
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
With all the filthy lucre sloshing around on Wall Street, New York City may not strike you as a bastion...
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
The city council in Passaic, New Jersey unanimously passed an ordinance requiring paid sick leave on Tuesday night with a...
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...
In a newly released audio recording, obtained by The Undercurrent, a man identified as a top Koch strategist warned that...
I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary. You...
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
Reading companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a reliable cure for insomnia. Every so often, though,...
The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they...
The Institute for Policy Studies’ 2014 Executive Pay Reform Scorecard – part of the just-released latest edition of the IPS...
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
Reading companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a reliable cure for insomnia. Every so often, though,...
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
Bringing to a close a summer-long supermarket standoff, a deal was reached late Wednesday to sell the majority stake of...
The AP interviewed one of the lesser known Koch brothers, William, in what seems to be an attempt to soften...
Every August, for most of the last four decades, top central bankers from around the world have been making their...
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
(CNN) — Does money make you happy? Does being rich contribute to your spiritual life and its possibilities? Is the...
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
The Lac Mégantic oil train derailment that killed 47 people and nearly destroyed a small town was caused by a...
Subway may claim to be the “leader in fast, healthy food,” but that alleged commitment to wellness often doesn’t extend...
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
On the heels of news that natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale hit an all-time high in July, as...