* Japan, United States among economies with talent shortages * 34 pct of world employers having difficulty filling jobs: survey ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.24.2012
As lawmakers in Albany, N.Y., contemplate a boost to the state's minimum wage, a group of business leaders came out Thursday in support of hiking the ...
The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.24.2012
A primary factor driving employees towards being uninsured might not be that they aren't being offered health benefits by their company, but that the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.11.2012
The uproar over "pink slime" beef products may have claimed some collateral damage, with a meatpacking worker in California saying she and her colleag...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.09.2012
After performing a series of hotel inspections, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety has sent a rare letter to the Hyatt Corporation reco...
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.07.2012
May Day 2012 didn't have a concrete agenda, but it opened a forum for voices that are typically silenced and ignored. And while racist hostility pervades the mainstream political arena, Occupy may be one of the only spaces left for immigrants to speak up without fear.
Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.03.2012
Many people might be surprised to learn that the May Day celebrations that occurred around the world in 2012 were born more than a century ago out of a struggle by American workers for the eight-hour day.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.03.2012
WASHINGTON -- Thirteen U.S. workers were killed on the job each day and roughly 50,000 died from work-related diseases in 2010, a worrisome increase i...
Noam Chomsky | Posted 04.28.2012
May Day started here, but then became an international day in support of American workers who were being subjected to brutal violence and judicial punishment. If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.26.2012
In a Washington full of revolving-door sellouts who effortlessly glide between special-interest sinecures and government jobs earning personal fortunes on the payroll of the 1 percent, Elizabeth Warren will never sell her public conscience for private wealth.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- When he was working on a poultry processing line in northern Alabama last year, Jorge Polanco-Mercado watched new workers come and go al...
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.12.2012
Wanna get away? No. Nearly half of American workers didn't use all of their allotted vacation days last year, according to a recent survey conduct...
University of St. Andrews | Posted 04.05.2012
Knowing that your colleagues and peers earn more than you can actually raise your satisfaction levels, but only if you are under 45, according to new ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.23.2012
Visitors to the Strand Book Store, a quirky bastion of the New York intellectual tradition on Broadway and 12th Street, may have noticed that the plac...
Hannah Gurman | Posted 05.23.2012
The compact between U.S. corporations and U.S. labor is over. Especially in light of all that has transpired since 2008, why should anyone believe that catering to the interests of U.S. corporations located in or returning from China will make American workers any better off?
American Independent | Posted 03.20.2012
In state legislatures across the country, slashing the benefits and pension plans of public sector workers has come into bipartisan fashion. Even in t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.15.2012
Warehouse workers in Southern California filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday alleging labor law violations against a Walmart contractor, the ...
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.09.2012
India's economic ascent seems like it should be the envy of the world's richest nations. Except Indian workers just gave the boosters of global capitalism a few million second thoughts.
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.19.2012
Since 2001, the United States has lost 2.8 million manufacturing jobs to China -- that despite U.S. factory workers being far more productive. Par...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.08.2012
On International Women's Day, each woman in the world must use this as an opportunity to step up and fight the good fight. For our health. For our jobs. And for our future.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.06.2012
A bill moving through the Florida legislature would kill any local laws designed to help workers recover wages owed by their employers, prompting demo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.02.2012
Richard Coots, Jr. wasn’t killed in a massive explosion, and the accident that claimed him barely made a ripple of news beyond Eastern Kentucky. He ...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.02.2012
Here's the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4th quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That's respectable. But here's the bad news: The share of that growth going to American workers is at a record low.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.01.2012
WASHINGTON -- A federal rule meant to protect the lungs of workers has been caught in bureaucratic purgatory for more than a year now, frustrating pub...
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.01.2012
While workers are consumed with immediate problems of economic instability and unemployment, labor activists struggle to find unity as organizations jostle for representation in the fractious post-Mubarak political landscape.
Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012