A federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction on Tuesday against an Obama administration regulation expanding by millions the number of workers who would be eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay.
Scores of Philadelphia service workers, such as janitors and security guards, will get better pay under a law expanding the city’s prevailing wage regulations that Mayor Kenney signed Thursday.
Faculty members at more than a dozen Pennsylvania public universities went on strike on Wednesday. The strike comes after negotiations broke down between the union and Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
For men in the private sector who lack a college degree and do not belong to a labor union, real wages today are substantially lower than they were in the late 1970s.
Governor Christie vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have gradually raised New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, thwarting a Democratic effort being tested around the country.
In a blow to private institutions and a boon to their graduate student employees, the NLRB ruled Tuesday that graduate research and teaching assistants are entitled to collective bargaining.
Recent research in social science and history suggests that the white working-class men who are planning to vote for Donald J. Trump this November might have been out front in the fight against Mr. Trump — if only the
While the Democratic Party platform supports a strong labor movement, the Republican Party platform sees unions as a threat to "freedom" in the workplace.
As of 6:00 a.m. this morning, about 1,000 members of UNITE HERE Local 54 went out on strike at the Trump Taj Mahal. We ask that you please support our brothers and sisters by joining their picket line.
From the New York Times, May 17, 2016 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, in a far-reaching effort to improve the lot of workers that has ignited criticism from business groups, announced on Tuesday that it was making millions more employees