Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she said, involving up to 80 hours a week of mental and physical labor that doesn’t end ...

Near-historic price increases for basics like food and gas have drawn scrutiny to a question at the heart of the economy: How much money must a worker make to stay afloat? The price of eggs has risen ...

Butler Hospital workers, including nurses and mental health staff, are on strike due to unfair labor practices. The strike, the longest hospital lockout in Rhode Island history, centers around low ...

Raising the minimum wage stands to benefit millions of American workers, supporters say, lifting them out of poverty and increasing workers’ family resources, but it has remained untouched for over a ...

Hannah Bernhard, middle in black, walks with others during a rally at UMass on Thursday afternoon, at which 200 union members lobbied for better wages and full staffing. Nick Chavez, the treasurer of ...

The minimum wage workers at the hospital are distraught about the employer’s refusal to bargain a fair wage increase Minimum wage. No benefits. No pension. That’s the reality for the 20 cafeteria ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Poverty is pervasive. Poverty has negatively affected the lives of ...

As the debate over minimum wage intensifies nationwide, the spotlight now falls on Texas, where stagnant wages have deepened the struggles of low-income families. Despite economic growth in various ...

A group of farmworkers are suing over a new federal policy that's expected to shift $2.46 billion in annual wages from ...

IATSE B-192, which represents the group of 70-odd workers, is currently negotiating a first contract with theater management. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter Amid negotiations with their ...

Virginia's poorest workers need a raise. The state's hourly minimum wage of $5.15 has not changed since 1997, although inflation has eroded its value by 17 percent since then. Minimum-wage earners in ...