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Working class Americans are the blood of this nation. When they thrive, communities thrive too. This underscores the vital role of a living minimum wage in sustaining working families and advancing the broader fight for fair pay.
Matt McLaughlin stands out as a candidate whose lived experience with economic hardship directly counters the out-of-touch nature of many elected...
Trump administration plans to revoke up to 200,000 B-1/B-2 visas held by asylum seekers, framing applications as fraud despite legal protections for...
The Double Wage for Overtime Act would raise the premium from 1.5x to 2x the regular rate for the first time since 1938, strengthening protections for...
After losing Temporary Protected Status, roughly 200 Haitian immigrants in the Phoenix area lost work permits and now hide indoors, terrified of ICE...
David Prouty returns to the NLRB for a second term after a career representing over 175,000 property service workers and athletes through unions like...
Working-class Americans make up half the labor force yet hold just 1% of state legislative seats, a pattern repeated globally at 2%. The barriers are...
ICE tactics are shattering immigrant workers' lives while communities and courts fight back.
A Department of Correction healthcare worker was struck in the head by an inmate immediately after a medical evaluation at New Haven Correctional...
The Trump administration ended a decade-old deal shielding workers reporting labor abuses from ICE retaliation, leaving immigrant employees vulnerable...
Chef Elijah Button lost his Affordable Care Act coverage after a sharp premium hike, showing how rising healthcare costs crush working families in Florida.
Industrial policy is back, yet without working-class power to discipline capital, it simply funnels public money to private profit. Labor must organize to shape these programs so they serve workers, not just corporations.
The Justice Department is weighing federal charges against ICE agent Christian Castro for shooting Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg, a...
The Square New Deal reframes government around working-class needs rather than size debates.
The Fair Labor Standards Act sets the federal baseline for minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping, and child labor rules.
A Republican NLRB majority now holds power to revisit worker protections on bargaining, strikes, and remedies, while courts chip away at the agency's...
US healthcare fails workers on two fronts: as employees exposed to Long Covid and as patients crushed by costs.
Trump's proposed $103,265 H-1B fee slams the door on legal immigration for all but the wealthiest, pricing out low-income workers and fueling their exploitation. The administration's revenue grab undermines fairness for working people.
