Labor

John Weeks: The fiscal cliff has simply been created by Congress in order to push austerity which is no solution during a recession.

Walmart workers to protest conditions, wages on biggest shopping day of the year.

The so-called job creator complained on FOX News about all the money the Obamacare mandate will cost him to provide health care to his workers.

Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and beyond: the national election repudiated religious conservatives …

If President Obama truly believes in strengthening the middle class, he will revisit legislation to raise the minimum wage so that people can start to invest in the country …

Even UEu2019s Townsend, who is less optimistic than most labor leaders that Obama will be a labor ally in his second term, says unions still needed to get out …

Union-backed ballot measures fared well around the country Tuesday, with an exception in Michigan and an uncertain outcome in Phoenix.

Minorities around the country stood strong in the face of efforts to suppress their votes. Now that the election is over, what will happen to that energy and force?

States have less than a week to decide whether they will set up insurance exchange markets or whether the government will step in. Kansas, reluctantly, chose federal intervention.

Since the NYPDu2019s decision to deny entry to the area, workers have been forced to go back to street corners.