The class of 2013 gets recognized in #nerdland, as do fast food strikers -- and Angelina Jolie's big decision highlights a discussion about the politics of breast cancer on Sunday's "MHP." Read More

Labor is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth while the tech industry is pointing to other studies that say the shortage is very real and is a threat to U.S. competitiveness. Read More

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is looking into a new report alleging that as many as 84% of New York fast food workers experience wage theft. Read More

The nationwide wave of fast food strikes appears to be gradually coalescing into a national push for a higher minimum wage. Read More

Detroit—a city under emergency management in a state that has recently adopted harsh right-to-work laws—on Friday joined the wave of cities across the nation to see fast food workers on strike for the right to form a union and receive a higher base pay. Read More

The nationwide wave of fast food strikes is "potentially the largest organizing drive in decades." Read More

The district of 435 students in Saginaw, Mich., will "probably request an Emergency Manager," according to Superintendent Deborah Harvill. Read More

Roughly 150 people died due to work-related illness or injury in 2011, according to a new report the AFL-CIO released on Tuesday. Fatal workplace injuries claimed 13 lives per day, while work-related illness and disease killed an additional 137 people daily. Read More

On the same day that President Obama signed legislation effectively ending air traffic furloughs, Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan showed up at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison with seniors, students and others from the community who are experiencing the pain caused by the sequester. Read More

Home to five factories that supplied clothing to retailers in Europe and the United States, the shoddily constructed building's collapse has put a focus on the high human price paid when Bangladeshi government ineptitude, Western consumer apathy and global retailing's drive for the lowest cost of production intersect. Read More

About one third of the past month's job growth was concentrated in the low-wage retail and hospitality industries, while the number of involuntary part-time workers continued to climb. Read More

Penny Pritkzer, who Obama nominated for Secretary of Commerce on Thursday, is the heiress to a hotel chain which has long been a target of union organizing efforts. Read More

They have the right to go to work every day, earn a fair, livable wage, and come home every night-- safe, to the people they love. It's the most basic demand, but it doesn't just happen by magic. It happens through struggle. Read More

Across the world, demonstrations took place to mark International Workers Day, also known as May Day. With high unemployment, a paltry federal minimum wage and… Read More

It's been a rough year for working people in America. Five reasons why the working class has little to cheer about on this annual International Workers' Day. Read More

Tuesday's White House press conference featured a question about Benghazi, but no questions related to the country's staggeringly low labor force participation rate. Read More

The collapse of a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh is thought to be the worst industrial accident in the country's history. Read More

The Chicago strikers—who include workers from McDonald's, Subway, Macy's, Sears, and Victoria's Secret—are demanding a wage floor of $15 an hour and the right to form a union. Read More

Because flying was just too much fun before? The sequester kicked in: longer lines, canceled flights. Read More