Labor

In today's On the News segment: More than 250 Walmart workers and sympathizers from Southern California walked out on the job Thursday - and held a rally to draw …

More women are seizing new opportunities to enter the skilled blue-collar workforce, which can pay $20 to $80 an hour.

Farmworkers win another round in the fight to improve working conditions and compensation.

The Case Against Markets

Working in Freeport, Illinois protest the closing of a Sensata factory by the Bain Corporation and asking Mitt Romney to fulfill his promises to keep jobs in the US.

Workers responsible for moving an estimated $1 trillion worth of goods a year through the global economy are paid low wages, often denied breaks and basic protective gear, and …

On November 6 Californians will vote whether to approve the largest tax hike on the wealthy in that state since 1978, and its the Unions who are going to …

Pilger remembers Aboriginal leader Arthur Murray, who died recently after a life of hard work in the cotton fields of Australia and fighting for justice for his son, who …

For the first time since the census began counting in 1880 - more than half of American adults are single. Here's why.

The outsourcing of good jobs, the elimination of pensions, rampant home foreclosures; skyrocketing higher education costs and mounting debt: Given these stark realities, the American middle class seems to …