Tag: labor
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Philadelphia school bus drivers, cleaners and engineers win 9.5% raises and...
The 2,000 members of 32BJ SEIU District 1201 approved the three-year deal 800 to 80, after opening talks in June with higher pay as their bottom line.
Hundreds of Las Vegas Culinary Union members are protesting their own...
Dissidents say the new clinic-based plan limits their choice of doctors, while leaders describe a small group spreading misinformation about a plan with no premiums, copays or deductibles.
Leaked Amazon documents show warehouses ranked by union risk
The same warehouse where the documents surfaced already won union certification without a vote, after the labor board found Amazon's conduct during the campaign was deliberate and pervasive.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding...
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.
Underage Players, Predatory Moneylenders: 7 Findings From Our Dominican Baseball Investigation
ProPublica uncovered the machinery of the Dominican Republic baseball factory, whose lenders and trainers exploit players as young as 11. Here are the key findings from our reporting.
Mamdani launches nation’s first city office dedicated to worker organizing
City Hall points to CEO pay ratios and outdoor worker risks in laying out what the new agency is meant to address.
More than 40% of teachers now work a second job to...
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.
Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their...
The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural...
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.













