Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she said, involving up to 80 hours a week of mental and physical labor that doesn’t end ...

Butler Hospital workers, including nurses and mental health staff, are on strike due to unfair labor practices. The strike, the longest hospital lockout in Rhode Island history, centers around low ...

Near-historic price increases for basics like food and gas have drawn scrutiny to a question at the heart of the economy: How much money must a worker make to stay afloat? The price of eggs has risen ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Poverty is pervasive. Poverty has negatively affected the lives of ...

Raising the minimum wage stands to benefit millions of American workers, supporters say, lifting them out of poverty and increasing workers’ family resources, but it has remained untouched for over a ...

According to the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, America's "True Rate of Unemployment" now sits at 24.8 percent.

Hannah Bernhard, middle in black, walks with others during a rally at UMass on Thursday afternoon, at which 200 union members lobbied for better wages and full staffing. Nick Chavez, the treasurer of ...

The minimum wage workers at the hospital are distraught about the employer’s refusal to bargain a fair wage increase Minimum wage. No benefits. No pension. That’s the reality for the 20 cafeteria ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport returned to the picket line Tuesday demanding respect and better wages. Tuesday's rally came ahead of American Airlines' annual ...

Virginia's poorest workers need a raise. The state's hourly minimum wage of $5.15 has not changed since 1997, although inflation has eroded its value by 17 percent since then. Minimum-wage earners in ...