Labor

The leading advocate for U.S. restaurant workers is releasing a new book that aims to redefine success in the deeply unequal restaurant business.

Whether industrial or service, jobs become “good” only because of coordinated pressure from workers. Current campaigns across the United States to unionize service workers reflect a decades-long transformation, as service-sector employment...

This Labor Day, let's end the erratic scheduling practices that keep the country's workers reliant on the whims of their employers.

We have taxes on the labor we do and another set of taxes on wealth. Two years ago, my colleague Sam Pizzigati and I penned an op-ed, A Tax System...

A new report reveals just how much the restaurant industry’s current low-wage model costs ordinary taxpayers. More than four million Americans work in the full service restaurant industry. Of these,...

McDonald's is the latest mega-rich corporate employer to announce it's giving workers a raise. In a press release this week, McDonald's announced it would raise workers' wages to at least...

 There are several factual and well-established reasons why corporations owe a great debt to the nation that has made them rich. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_8665" align="alignright" width="212"] Corporations use...

Walmart raised wages after being pressured by its own employees, but it still outpaces the pack when it comes to overpaid execs.

In the ongoing struggle for worker justice, we may need a little 19th century wisdom. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_7932" align="alignright" width="283"] In the 19th century, labor organizers emphasized the...