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The U.S. State Department says North Korea has rescinded its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to travel to Pyongyang to seek the release of a detained American. Bob King, the U.S.
On the heels of nearly 200 labor-led actions that already have been held in support of a comprehensive immigration policy that includes a road map to citizenship, working families will participate in more than 160 Labor Day weekend events around the country. Most of the events will focus on calling on House Republicans to quit holding immigration policy hostage and for them to do the right thing on behalf of aspiring Americans.Text NOW to 235246 to tell Speaker John Boehner you want a vote on citizenship. Standard data and message rates may apply.
New technology is keeping more and more workers stuck in low-wage jobs, and it's society's responsibility to make sure those jobs still have dignity and fair wages.With robots taking over factories and warehouses, toll collectors and cashiers increasingly being replaced by automation and even legal researchers being replaced by computers, the age-old question of whether technology is a threat to jobs is back with us big time. Technological change has been seen as a threat to jobs for centuries, but the history tells that while technology has destroyed some jobs, the overall impact has been to create new jobs, often in new industries. Will that be true after the information revolution as it was in the industrial revolution?
Two guest workers from Mexico filed a lawsuit in a California federal district court last week alleging systematic exploitation. The workers claim that during the seven years they worked for Butler Amusements, the largest carnival company in the western United States, they were “consistently underpaid” for their work “setting up, breaking down, transporting and maintaining machinery and equipment” at numerous fair sites in California, Arizona, Nevada and Idaho, as In These Times labor reporter Michelle Chen writes.
Yesterday, as fast-food workers participated in the largest strike the industry has ever seen, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich released a new video and petition, along with MoveOn, calling on McDonald's and Walmart to pay their workers a decent wage. In the video, he breaks down what steps are needed to make sure workers get a fair share in the current economy, where jobs are coming back, but most of them are paying less than they were before the recession.
Days of finding a quarter under your pillow are long gone. The Tooth Fairy no longer leaves loose change. Kids this year are getting an average of $3.70 per lost tooth, a 23 percent jump over last year's rate of $3 a tooth, according to a new survey by payment processor Visa Inc., released Friday.
Syria: American public is skeptical on strikesHalf of Americans oppose any U.S. military action against Syria, and eight in 10 want President Barack Obama to get the OK from Congress first, according to an NBC News poll released moments ago.
There will be no Labor Day holiday for fire crews battling a massive California wildfire, but Yosemite National Park officials expect that while the number of day trippers will be down, hotel and camping reservations will still be at a premium over the holiday weekend.
They swing the same Pulaskis, buzz the same chainsaws and face the same dangers.But 673 of the wildland firefighters battling the ferocious blaze around Yosemite National Park have something that other hotshot crew members do not: a prison identification number.
A 1-year-old girl was shot dead and an 18-year-old woman injured in a shooting in New Orleans, the city's police department said Thursday.The teenager, whom police described as the child's caretaker, was walking with the baby just before 8:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m.
