
Official jobless rate stays at 5.5 percent
The U.S. official unemployment rate stayed at 5.5 percent in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced.

To raise wages in Panama, dockers join a U.S. union
In Panama they call longshore pay "hunger wages." Workers' families live below the government's own poverty line, and some families literally go hungry.

Senate ‘vote-a-rama’ produces few wins for workers
And the wins workers got, on amendments denouncing USPS cuts and advocating paid family and medical leave, may only be symbolic.

