Is it too much to ask growers and construction firms to furnish water and shade on hot days? Apparently so—in Florida and Texas.

Affirmative action is dead, but the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that the problems it once hoped to address remain a fact of life.

It’s no contest: The Biden administration’s labor policies have been dramatically better for ordinary Americans than those of his predecessor.

The left and labor haven’t always seen eye to eye—but they may be on the verge of a fruitful reunion.

Disney Chief Bob Iger says workers who want fair pay are expecting too much.

A new bill rolls back city-level rights for workers to take breaks during hot days—as Texas swelters through a punishing heat wave.

Nail salons are notorious for their poor working conditions. A new bill could finally change that.

The Democratic legislature and governor are delivering on their victory.

Note to the government: Don’t ease up on the pressure now.

Rail workers currently get zero sick days. The House voted to give them seven.

The Florida senator sent a tweet in support of rail workers, but refused to explain any action he'd actually take to help them.

What did the "Chief Twit" think was going to happen?

Time to put the kibosh on all this corporate talk about how workers have to sacrifice their labor market leverage to fight inflation.

Eighty-one Senate restaurant workers had their jobs saved … for now.

The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

The Biden administration must not only curb emissions. It also has to move swiftly to issue its planned OSHA regulation limiting the heat exposure that kills more workers every year.

Corporate America’s pledges to make C-suites less white and male don’t mean much for workers. But it keeps coming back to the idea, anyway.

Pundits and think tanks seem to love it, but it’s a meaningless phrase in the modern Republican Party.

What we’re learning from reports about how people spent their stimulus checks.

Teachers, bus drivers, health aides, and other school workers are organizing against a culture that is trying to feed them into the jaws of the pandemic.