The Los Angeles City Council voting 14-1 to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour is a very big deal. Doing this city by city or state by.
Fast food workers fighting for $15 an hour took pictures of their homes to publicize what their life is like. Powerful stuff.
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might.
You probably read Sarah Maslin Nir's excellent investigative report on the labor conditions inside New York nail salons, which are brutal and including wage theft, poisoning from breathing in cosmetics,.
Housing for the workers building the NYU campus at Abu Dhabi NYU has come under significant criticism for the terrible conditions of the workers building it's Abu Dhabi campus. Here.
Please read this Human Rights Watch report on union busting in Bangladesh's garment industry. Two years after Rana Plaza, conditions have changed slightly for the better because of pressure from.
Can the nation afford a $12 minimum wage in 2020? The answer is obviously yes on the face of it. But the always useful Economic Policy Institute released a report.
Above: Los Angeles school teacher April Bain The latest Rheeist attack on unions is quite special. Her organization Students First is helping a woman named April Bain, featured above, in.
