Labor

For the first time in more than 50 years, the Machinists union will hold a contested election for top officers.

A win for the United Auto Workers at Volkswagen looks likely this week, as 1,550 workers vote on union representation through Friday.

Why are Republican politicians in Tennessee and a host of outside interests interfering in union voting by Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga?

Hundreds of protesters picketed Twitter's offices because of an exceptionally generous tax break it receives from San Francisco.

At the moment, it's unclear what Obama's next move will be in terms of raising minimum wage across the board.

A law that limits the length of public campaigns to five months is among many serious efforts to restore the ability of ordinary voters to elect candidates who represent …

The usual answers are that no one did anything wrong or, more realistically, that it's too hard to convict individuals in complex financial fraud cases.

Paycheck “protection” legislation is one of the main anti-union initiatives that conservative activists have promoted at the state level.

Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …

Elaine's work re-imagines risk prevention beyond prepping: the meaningful steps that communities, organizations and governments should take long before the first sirens go off.