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Waffle House workers launched a three-day strike in South Carolina in response to low pay, harsh working conditions and staff shortages. They are supported by the Union of Southern Service Workers.

Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. It’s now making a disturbing comeback: lawmakers across the US are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that prohibit employing children.

The dystopian drama spins class warfare into gold.

“We’re riding a wave of graduate worker unionization,” Johnston said. “We hope to be the next part of the wave that pushes more grad workers to do this for themselves.”

“I just want to teach science,” says New Hampshire poet Christopher Clauss, but his responsibilities also range from the absurd to the dangerous.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which is now in effect, requires employers provide accommodations to pregnant workers for everything from pregnancy through the postpartum period, including time off to recover.

Paul Peart-Smith, Paul Buhle, and Herb Boyd provide the world with their masterful graphic adaptation and edited interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s great scholarly The Souls of Black Folk - “The Souls of Black Folk: In Its Time…and Ours.”

Misclassification of workers may sound like a clerical error. But in the construction industry, it can lead to wage theft, intimidation, and delayed treatment for workplace injuries.

Reviewer Wikström examines this well-known cultural critic's massive, ambitious, yet flawed study of post World War II U.S. culture and its influence.

The Teamsters Union said on Wednesday United Parcel Service "walked away" from negotiations over a new contract.