Labor

As people celebrate the end of summer, it's important to remember that Labor Day salutes everyday people across the country.

A story worth telling on this Labor Day.

Many Americans are suffering, but for many their finances are also stable.

Union bosses try to hijack the Labor Day holiday to argue for more coercive power over workers. It's wrong for them to do so.

Iran champions itself as standing for the "oppressed," but it is in fact one of the world's worst oppressors.

Athletes from various professional sports leagues, including the NBA, WNBA, MLB and MLS, refused to play on Wednesday in protest to the shooting of Jacob Blake.

President Trump's recent executive order is exactly on point.

Simply "buying American" is not enough.

There is a rising bipartisan awareness of how forward-thinking capitalism must focus on labor dignity and workers' rights.

The opposition leaders who came within a seat or two of ousting Netanyahu broke with the entire premise of their campaign—and gave Bibi yet another term in office.

"We have to go back to work," Trump said Thursday. "Our country has to go back."

The coronavirus pandemic is triggering job losses and 1 million people could be laid off in April alone, a former White House economist warned.

Over 75 percent of the 25,000 workplace assaults reported annually in the United States took place in hospitals and other health care and social services settings, according to data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The report says that the labor board, which is supposed to protect the interests of workers, has "elevated corporate interests above those of working men and women and have routinely betrayed the statute they are responsible for administering and enforcing."

Offices in Alabama have been shuttered in a sick-out in demand of better wages and more jobs.

Amazonians United Sacramento has unified to protest the company's limited off-time policies after a fellow worker was fired for spending one hour more than allowed by off-time policy at the bedside of her dying mother-in-law.

The state of Alaska is planning on appealing a federal court decision that says they cannot count unscheduled weeks for rotational workers against their accumulated leave time.

We need laws that will empower contractors and freelancers without risking taking away the work they count on.

AB 5 will classify hundreds of independent contractors as employees in San Diego, changing the state's already-hectic gig-based economy, but for workers the battle isn't over.

"Who do you think is mowing our beautiful lawns in Somerset County? We don't usually ask, but a lot of those workers are undocumented. They're just not a lot of kids, sorry, from Montgomery High who are going to be doing that full time," Malinowski said.

The city of New York has agreed to pay her a $610,000 settlement.

Workers have had the right to 12 weeks of unpaid leave after childbirth, adoption and for other serious health issues.

As a requirement of the visa process, I ran "help wanted" ads in my area for jobs at my seasonal landscaping business. Not a single American applied.

Job Torres could be sentenced to 10 years for the count of harboring undocumented immigrants and 20 years for the forced labor count.

In the U.S., 33 percent of babies are born via c-section.

The legislation would eliminate restrictions on the number of hours that 16- and 17-year-olds can work each week.

The rule change would make it nearly impossible for those employees to engage in collective bargaining, and could cost them up to $1.3 billion each year, an Economic Policy Institute study found.

A Wisconsin high school marketing teacher violated district "bias" rules after showing students a comedy-infused pro-labor union video entitled, "Why the Rich Love Destroying Unions."

Despite his statements about supporting workers, Trump has decreased labor protections, rolled back worker safety and weakened federal unions.

Stores like Best Buy, Dell and Old Navy are just some of the businesses offering Labor Day weekend deals.