Unemployment would be 6.2 percent if it included discouraged jobseekers
Governments never hired back all the workers they fired in the Great Recession, and there's been a resulting drag on the current recovery.
Striking Walmart workers in China contact U.S. Walmart activists
"We are going to stand our ground," Zhang Liya, a founding member of the workers' network, told the Chinese labor paper.
More data to be collected on wage thieves who want federal contracts
Federal contracting officers will begin receiving data on prospective contractors' wage theft records.
Unemployment rate rises in June to 4.9 percent
Unemployment for African-American teenagers jumped by 33,000 from May to June, and their joblessness rose to 31.2 percent.
Auto Workers vs. Volkswagen in Chattanooga: The saga continues
The long-running saga revolving around the Auto Workers campaign to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., continues.
Consumers League warns teens about summer jobs that can kill
"Always follow safety training. Working safely and carefully may slow you down, but ignoring safe work procedures is a fast track to injury."
Coalition forms to combat wage theft in Minnesota
The new wage theft coalition will focus on identifying and implementing solutions.
Wage theft, labor law-breaking force L.A. port truckers into another strike
Can you imagine working five weeks in a row and earning nothing?
Aging in the fields: No alternative but to keep working
"I had to work out of necessity. My mother couldn't support my younger siblings alone, and I'm the eldest daughter."
Unions: New Verizon pact gives raises, halts outsourcing, adds jobs
Some 40,000 Verizon workers from Maine down through Virginia marched back to work today after a company-forced 45-day strike earned them victories.
