MEXICO CITY, Mexico—Mexico will raise its minimum wage by 16% on Jan. 1 to about 103 pesos (US $5.10) per day, federal labor secretary Luisa María Alcalde announced Dec. 17.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles teachers say they will go on strike Jan. 10, and no further talks are in the offing with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
CHICAGO, Ill.—The Onion has a union contract. The creative staff at the humor publication and its sister sites, including The A/V Club and Clickhole, overwhelmingly ratified their first collective bargaining
The congressional elections just concluded, including Beto O’Rourke’s nationally featured race against Ted Cruz, showed that our political discourse shapes what we think about government and politics.
SHAKOPEE, Minn.—About 100 people protested outside Amazon’s fulfillment center in the Twin Cities’ southern suburbs Dec. 14, demanding that the company treat African-immigrant workers more fairly.
DETROIT, Mich.—General Motors announced Dec. 14 that it will offer 2,700 new jobs to the 3,300 workers scheduled to be laid off when it closes four U.S. plants next year—but
OSHAWA, Ontario—Unifor, the union that represents 2,600 workers at General Motors’ Oshawa plant, launched a campaign Dec. 13 to try to convince the company to keep the plant open.
DALLAS, Tex.—The Communications Workers of America’s efforts to organize workers in the financial industry helped uncover widespread deceptive practices by the nation’s leading subprime auto-loan lender—while the company was aggressively
WASHINGTON DC – While T-Mobile and Sprint’s proposed merger is under review by the FCC and DOJ – opposition continues to mount. The Communication Workers of America have argued that
KOHLER, Wisc.—Production workers at the Kohler plumbing-products company here overwhelmingly ratified a contract Dec. 2 that will eliminate most of the two-tier pay differences established in 2010. The five-year deal
