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WATCH: Unpaid Intern Explains Why He Sued Fox Searchlight Pictures

Posted 06.13.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

While at Fox Searchlight Pictures, Eric Glatt saw continued violations of labor protections for unpaid interns like him. He joins HuffPost Live to giv...

Dave Jamieson

House GOP Passes Bill Loosening Overtime Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- As part of their efforts to rebrand the GOP as a more caring party, House Republicans passed a hotly debated bill Wednesday that would l...

A Look at Farm Labor Law

Alison Schneider | Posted 04.29.2013 | Taste
Alison Schneider

If we are aiming to be more food secure and less vulnerable to environmental and man-made challenges to our food system, we need to provide the labor force with basic rights of safety and compensation.

Dave Jamieson

GOP Looks To Loosen Overtime Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are planning to introduce legislation that could loosen the nation's 75-year-old law governing overtime in the workpla...

These Workers Aren't Protected By Labor Laws

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 03.11.2013 | Business

GENEVA — At least 52.6 million people worldwide are employed as domestic workers, most of them women vulnerable to abuse and without adequate le...

Dave Jamieson

Workers Still Waiting On White House's 'We Can't Wait' Initiative

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.13.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A year ago President Barack Obama stood with a group of home care aides and announced that his administration would be extending to them...

Dave Jamieson

Caught Off-Guard, Unions Rush To Michigan To Contain Damage

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.11.2012 | Detroit

Thousands of union-supporting workers poured into Lansing, Mich., Tuesday to protest the passage of the state's right-to-work legislation. The bois...

Unions Vow Payback On Controversial GOP Measure

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 02.08.2013 | Politics

LANSING, Mich. — With defeat in the Michigan Legislature virtually certain, Democrats and organized labor intend to make enactment of right-to-w...

Working Kids... to Disability and Death

Bruce Lesley | Posted 07.04.2012 | Impact
Bruce Lesley

According to a report in the Journal of Pediatrics, approximately 26,650 youth are injured on farms every year. Of these injuries, more than 3,700 require hospitalization. Now, passing the CARE Act is even more important.

Dave Jamieson

Bill Passed Banning Employers From Asking For Facebook, Twitter Passwords

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.20.2012 | Technology

WASHINGTON -- In a victory for privacy hawks and worker advocates, Maryland legislators passed a bill Wednesday that would ban employers from asking j...

Let's Stand With Working People Against the Crony Capitalists and Their Political Lackeys

Allan Brawley | Posted 06.02.2012 | Politics
Allan Brawley

Early union struggles need to be remembered and appropriately re-enacted if we are to take the country back from the corporate interests that again control it, their political and judicial allies, and the complicit mainstream media.

Getting Labor Unions to the Adult Table: Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right

Dean Baker | Posted 05.13.2012 | Business
Dean Baker

There needs to be some change in the rules if workers in the private sector are going to have chance of being able to organize successfully.

Obama Plan Would Expand Key Worker Protections

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 02.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Workers in the home health care industry – one of the country's fastest growing professions – would be guaranteed minim...

How Government Fails To Deliver On Worker Safety

iWatch News | Posted 12.13.2011 | Business

Persistent hazards at a top employer underscore regulators' mixed message -- and 'schizophrenic' tactics....

Opus Dei Followers Accused Of Forcing Disciple To Work Decade Without Pay

AP | MASHA MACPHERSON | Posted 11.22.2011 | World

PARIS — Two Opus Dei followers and an association closely linked to the conservative Roman Catholic group went on trial Thursday, accused of for...

Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You

Steve Fraser | Posted 11.12.2011 | Politics
Steve Fraser

We have a choice: Americans can continue to accept large-scale unemployment as "natural" and permanent. Or we can follow the lead of the jobless young in the Arab Spring and of protestors beginning to demonstrate en masse in Europe.

Voice Labor Settlement: High Drama or Foregone Conclusion?

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2011 | Media
Michael Sigman

To state as a fact that a strike was "narrowly averted" has little more meaning than if I told you I narrowly averted missing dinner by consuming a sandwich just two hours before bedtime.

Lila Shapiro

Union-Busting Tactics More Pervasive Than Thought, Study Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.28.2011 | Business

In the last half-century of American organized labor, the deck has rarely been so stacked against workers, say labor historians. When it comes to u...

A Void: Where's the Triangle Fire Memorial?

Cari Shane | Posted 06.02.2011 | New York
Cari Shane

There is no statue to commemorate the senseless deaths of 120 women and 26 men in New York City's famous and tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Fi...

Tea Party, Labor Spend big in Wisconsin High Court Race

AP | By DINESH RAMDE | Posted 06.03.2011 | Politics

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Pro-labor organizations and one of the country's largest tea party groups are pouring money into Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court e...

New Wage Theft Laws Protect Workers

David Callahan | Posted 05.29.2011 | Politics
David Callahan

Cheating workers out of fairly-earned wages is about as low as things get. In most places in America, employers still face few penalties for wage theft allowing the epidemic to continue.

The Triangle Fire and the Media: 100 Years Later

Catherine Cloutier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Catherine Cloutier

The Triangle fire was an influential event in the history of journalism. Publications across the country united in defense of the defenseless as muckrakers advocated for social change.

The Sponsorship System Is on the Wrong Side of History

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

The existing sponsorship system in the UAE breeds complacency and suffocates innovation among nationals who find it an easy way to make income.

Sensational Cases Expose Conditions Faced by Overseas Workers Throughout Asia

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Each year, inhabitants of the least-developed Asian countries pursue the economic benefits of overseas employment despite the high social cost at home and possibility of injury at the hands of employers abroad.

Workers' Rights Around The World: Freedom House Report (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

The U.S. has a more restrictive stance towards workers' rights than Western Europe, Canada and even Israel, according to a new report. The report, r...