Labor
Video: Restaurant workers sing for “Money”
March 12, 2013Restaurant workers are sending a message to Albany lawmakers to raise the minimum wage to at least $9.00/hour when they do the budget this month.
Read moreOfficial jobless rate ticks down; 236,000 new jobs
March 11, 2013The nation's jobless rate dropped 0.1 percent in February, to 7.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Read moreChicago unions go to bat for immigration reform
March 8, 2013Chicago's labor movement turned out in force yesterday to declare support for immediate reform of immigration law.
Read moreHousehold workers demand rights, bang pots and pans, with video
March 8, 2013Hundreds banged pots and pans here yesterday to launch a campaign for a Household Workers Bill of Rights.
Read moreUnions go public with intent to overhaul their own structure
March 8, 2013The AFL-CIO will probe new ways of organizing itself and the broader labor movement and its allies to meet what it says are the changing times.
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