Labor

Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.

Thom Hartmann spoke with Truthout about his latest book, “The Crash of 2016,” a discussion that included Hartmann's wide-ranging counterpoints to a corporate media of conventional wisdom.

This week, Bill speaks with Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, about the group's fight for better wages and working conditions for America's 10 million restaurant …

Lawsuits show that the fight against wage theft is heating up, but workers shouldn't have to sue their employers to get paid what they're owed.

Most young farm-workers in California are migrants from Mexico. Photographer David Bacon gives a view of their daily lives.

Mark Weisbrot: New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods.

Give me your wired, your mobile, your monitored masses.

Leaked documents obtained by a Nashville TV station reveal communications between the employees of two Tennessee Republicans and a network of antiunion professionals during the United Auto Workers' …

Consultant firms such as Projections play a central role in the development and popularization of tactics now standard in anti-union campaigns.

The worse our situation gets - economically, politically, ecologically -the more we yearn for a vast movement to erupt and transform the landscape.