Friday, November 13, 2026
A Midwest meatpacking plant. Photo: Ammodramus, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight

The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.

EEOC reportedly plans to narrow pregnant workers rules after midterms

The New York Times, citing seven people familiar, says the changes could end explicit fertility treatment coverage and widen religious exemptions.
Chicago Teachers Union members at a 2019 rally. Photo: Charles Edward Miller / CC BY-SA 2.0

More than 40% of teachers now work a second job to make ends meet,...

Nearly a third of respondents say they are likely to leave teaching within a year, and researchers separately found the gap between teacher pay and other college graduates' pay barely eased in 2025.
A used car lot in Lansingburgh, New York. Photo: Tyler A. McNeil / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Credit Acceptance agrees to million settlement over unaffordable subprime car loans

Borrowers who lost cars to repossession will get million in debt relief, and the lender must cap vehicle prices at 109% of retail book value for seven years.

The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska

In one of the most remote towns in America, a group of teenagers is fighting to put an initiative on the November ballot that would raise the minimum wage for the largely Native population of Nome, Alaska.
The Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. Photo: Ken Lund / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

US-Canada trade war deepens as Trump revives Depression-era trade tool – what’s at stake...

Trump’s use of a trade tool created during the Great Depression helped trigger a trade war between the two border countries, with few signs of de-escalation in sight.

Orange County asks state labor board to step in as Teamsters strike disrupts landfills

The county says about 465 striking workers obstructed three landfills, while the union says its picketing is lawful and no citations were issued
Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett, Massachusetts. Photo: Parkerjh / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall

More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
A Starbucks storefront in Long Beach, California. Photo: Brad.K / CC BY 2.0

Starbucks Workers United calls nationwide boycott as contract fight drags on

The AFL-CIO's 65 unions endorsed the campaign as more than 550 unfair labor practice charges sit unresolved against the company.

190,000 New York home care workers file for a union election

The 1199SEIU petition covers caregivers in a Medicaid program that the state moved under a single contractor, and the aides it would represent are split on whether they want it.