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.
Workers Help Feed the World but Starved of Dignity
A report reveals widespread labour exploitation among food workers, warning that keeping the world fed comes at the cost of human dignity.
EPA union sues over termination of contract that protected scientific integrity
AFGE Council 238 says the agency ended its 2024 agreement to stifle dissent, months after employees signed a letter against administration policies.
A Wealth Tax on Billionaires? California Voters to Decide Prop 40
Sanders calls the one-time 5% levy the most important ballot measure in the country as California votes on November 3
On September 2, federal layoff appeals move from the Merit Systems Protection Board to...
Ninety-nine percent of the 1,252 public comments opposed the change, and employees will no longer be able to take a final decision to federal court.
Breaking up hospital and drug monopolies could save families $6,000 a year, report finds
A 26-group coalition of pharmacists, physicians and patients says consolidation, not coverage gaps, is driving the crisis.
AFL-CIO report warns digital shelf labels could cost retail workers billions in wages
Maryland and New Jersey have already moved to restrict the technology, betting its pricing infrastructure poses as much risk to shoppers as to store staff.
Outpacing Foreign Aid, Migrant Remittances Are a Lifeline Ensuring Families Are Fed and Healthy,...
Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty, according to IFAD.
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.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.