CHICAGO, Ill.—About 100 Chicago International Charter School teachers blocked the entrance to the school chain’s office building Feb. 13, the seventh day of their strike. “It’s unacceptable that people can
WASHINGTON—The federal spending deal passed Feb. 14 to avert another shutdown of federal agencies does not include back pay for more than a million employees of federal contractors, who lost
DENVER, Colo.—Denver teachers ended their three-day strike Feb. 14 after reaching a tentative contract agreement that will give them raises averaging 11.7%. The three-year deal would also give cost-of-living increases
TRENTON, N.J.—Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Feb. 4 that will raise New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour in January 2024, beginning with an increase from $8.85 to
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—West Virginia teachers will vote this week on whether to authorize a work stoppage to protest an omnibus education bill that would expand privatization of the state’s public
WASHINGTON—Just as the partial government shutdown was ending Jan. 25, the Trump administration gutted an Obama-era rule that required most employers to submit detailed annual reports of all workplace injuries
WASHINGTON—The 800,000 federal employees who were furloughed or forced to work without pay during the five-week-long partial government shutdown are scheduled to receive back pay this month—but more than a
LORDSTOWN, Ohio—More than 200 students, teachers, and General Motors workers rallied at Lordstown High School Jan. 24, part of the Drive It Home Ohio coalition’s campaign to persuade General Motors
RACINE, Wisc.—The Foxconn Technology Group likely won’t be making LCD televisions in southeast Wisconsin, despite being promised almost $5 billion in state and local subsidies to build a $10 billion
WORCESTER, Mass.—A federal court has ordered a New Jersey construction company to pay almost $200,000 in back pay and penalties for cheating 50 nonunion workers out of pay. The order
