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What’s the greatest economic fraud of our time? The idea that large employers that make billions in profits cannot pay their employees fair wages. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka applauded Gap's announcement it will raise the minimum wage for its workers to $9 an hour this year and $10 an hour in 2015.
Vicious attack after season opener at Dodger Stadium left paramedic Bryan Stow incapacitated.
A fire containing sulfuric acid burning at an airport facility in northern Iowa has injured at least four people and forced the evacuation of a small town.
Title IX deserves a gold: While we cheer for Team USA and the amazing girls and women in the Olympic Games, let’s also give a shout out to Title IX, the 1972 law that put sports within reach of girls in a whole new way by requiring gender equity in schools. And make some noise for American Sarah Hendrickson, who last week became the first woman ever to take an official ski jump at a Winter Games.
A fire containing sulfuric acid burning at an airport facility in northern Iowa has injured at least two people and forced the evacuation of a small town.
A look inside Wisconsin politics as Governor Scott Walker faces controversy after the release of emails from Walker's aides written during his time as Milwaukee County executive and leading up to his 2010 campaign for governor.
Peacock Productions workers went to NBC's headquarters, "30 Rock," in Manhattan today to deliver petitions with more than 10,000 signatures to MSNBC hosts, including Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Lawrence O'Donnell, urging them to meet with workers and speak out against the company’s anti-worker tactics.You can help persuade the MSNBC anchors to join in solidarity with the Peacock workers. Click here to send them an email and tell them to meet with workers and publicly support their right to organize at Peacock.
A Ga. family disputes claims that their son was holding a gun during a deadly probation arrest, saying he was in fact holding a Wii console remote.
The mother of a teenage girl who was declared brain dead in California after complications during tonsil surgery spoke out in an open letter Wednesday, saying that her daughter is improving.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
