Browsing: Labor

The secretary of the Department of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, resigned this week after several controversies surrounding her brief tenure at the helm of the agency. But…

Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, describes how a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market has left American job-seekers in a bind.

Responding to the complaint, a Department of Labor spokesperson said, “It appears a small group of employees would rather protest their detail to Labor than do…

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation…

The Labor Department is soliciting applications for a TRIO grant program on the Education Department’s behalf, and awards will be issued on Labor’s grants-management platform, ED…

How will we be fed? That’s the biggest question not seriously being addressed amid all this talk about whether or not artificial intelligence will end up…

The number of union elections overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dropped 30% in 2025 after the Trump administration left the federal labor watchdog…

There is good news out there, even if it feels like scraps in a world on the brink. Some came last week – with plenty of…

Greenland “will not be annexed”, the longtime leader of its largest labor union has declared, refuting Donald Trump’s claims that the Arctic territory’s current status poses…

Donald Trump has staged a year of “unrelenting attacks on working people,” according to the head of the largest federation of the labor unions in the…