Readers discuss the rights of migrant domestic workers, the deaths of two men cleaning a sewer, and the cost of additional floors in the Legislative Council complex.
Bangladesh's economic engine runs on the tireless efforts of over seven crore workers. Yet, a staggering 85 percent of them (nearly six crore people) toil in the shadows—the vast, unregulated world of the informal sector.
WASHINGTON — “Fight for $15 and a union” has become “Fight for a Union.” In a way that reflects a success for the first part of its cause. So many states and cities—including deep red states such as Arkansas and anti-union states such as Florida—now have $15 an hour, or more, as a mini...
WASHINGTON—Union leaders cheered—and corporate-backed congressional Republicans slammed—three new Biden administration decisions to help workers and consumers. With deadlines for announcing new federal rules looming, the Labor Department issued two.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—Faced with what they call a threat to Southern jobs and “the values we live by,” six white Republican Southern governors banded together to blast and condemn the Auto Workers’ organizing drive in the Deep South—specifically the unionization vote at the Volkswagen plant i...
Learn how the US Department of Labor is supporting families affected by work-related incidents on Workers Memorial Day, and how one woman's personal tragedy has fueled a national movement for workplace safety.
VANCE, Ala.—Some 5,200 Mercedes-Benz workers in its Vance, Ala., factory complex will vote soon on whether to join the United Auto Workers, in the latest manifestation of the union’s strategy to break foreign “transplant” auto firms’ stranglehold on Southern workers.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas —Just as the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun on Monday, April 8, newspaper workers in Rochester, N.Y., and Austin, Texas, eclipsed their bosses by going out on strike.
SEATTLE—Workers at REI Cooperative stores, some from as far away as New York, Chicago, and New Castleton, Ind., marched on company headquarters just outside Seattle on March 7, demanding the co-op bargain in good faith with them, and bringing their contract goals.