Labor

The Real News goes to the picket lines as Johns Hopkins Hospital workers launch a three-day strike for living wages.

Members of the union representing teaching assistants, associate instructors and undergraduate tutors across the University of California system went on strike for two days last week over working conditions …

The Supreme Court's majority ruled that a government of, by, and for the wealthy isn't corrupt.

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.