As Workers Struggled, Boardrooms Found Ways To Reward CEOs During Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the restaurant industry in March 2020, fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle instituted a 10% “appreciation pay”...
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the restaurant industry in March 2020, fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle instituted a 10% “appreciation pay”...
Pushing back on the right-wing narrative about the reason for real or perceived labor shortages in some markets nationwide, progressives...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts...
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
In the latest worker-led national day of action, low-wage fast food, restaurant, and grocery store workers held day-long strikes across...
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
With more than a third of households struggling to afford basic needs such as food and rent, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for...
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
Six days after President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified food safety groups...
Pinpointing a reality denounced as “morally obscene” by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a new government study shows how some of the...
The American people have voted to kick President Donald Trump out of the White House, but in its waning weeks,...
ust days after U.S. voters went to the polls to help deny President Donald Trump another four years in the White House,...
One of the greatest side benefits of climate action is that it creates a lot of jobs. Not only that...
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and...
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
The GOP has nothing with which to replace Obamacare, but that does not concern Trump. He just wants to destroy...
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
From his guidance rolling back paid leave benefits to his attempt to limit who qualifies for beefed up unemployment insurance, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s...
While millions are facing health and financial uncertainty and unemployment rolls are reaching record levels due to the novel coronavirus...
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly jobs report, Donald Trump and Republicans crow about the...
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
The Trump administration is trying once again to tweak the rules that govern how tipped workers are paid. This time,...
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company...
Walmart’s shareholder meeting drew some star power on Wednesday, just not the kind the retailer was hoping for. Sen. Bernie...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took lunch orders, served pizza and rocked the cocktail shaker on Friday...
Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, is preparing to gatecrash Walmart’s annual meeting to demand the world’s biggest retailer...
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...