Economists say the last jobs report of the year could shed new light on what workers still need information on about the ...
They were not what you’d call the usual day laborer gigs. No yard work. No installing doors. No laying down roof tiles on a hot summer day. There was the person who paid several workers to stand in ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. Union membership has been on the decline for some time. The ...
Here's a simple proposition most Americans can, and polls show do, support: Every worker should have the choice to join and pay dues to a union, and they should also be free to refrain from doing so ...
Good is chairman of the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee (which apparently forgot to strike the l-word from its name), not to be confused with the Subcommittee on Workforce ...
Earlier this month, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data that show a weakening economy, with job creation over the past three months not keeping up with population growth.
As Trump prepares to escalate attacks on unions and immigrant workers, the labor movement must build power to stop him.
Work in Progress is a column about finding your way in the working world. Have a question for Rainesford Stauffer? Send it to [email protected]. “Young workers can end up in precarious ...
As we say goodbye to the summer season by celebrating Labor Day, most Americans are eager to recognize the ingenuity and determination of rank-and-file workers. But not union bosses, who hijack the ...
The death of union laborer Isabel Alvarez was a front-page story in the New York Daily News, where the suspect's comments to police about the hit-and-run work zone death captured the attention of the ...
In opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return to the office directive for public employees, labor groups filed grievances, lawmakers demanded a state audit of the policy and workers picketed in the rain ...