Labor

“For the past few months, Republicans have been waging a ferocious political battle to end federal unemployment benefits,” writes Sonali Kolhatkar in CounterPunch, “based upon stated desires of saving

“What is Juneteenth?” writes Virginia Myers for The American Federation of Teachers. “Raphael Bonhomme had never even heard of it until he transferred to Howard University. And now he’s teaching it to third graders.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said US chocolate companies cannot be sued for child slavery on the African farms from which they buy most of their cocoa. But the court stopped short of saying such a lawsuit

Staffers at 11 Southern California newspapers, including The Orange County Register, voted Friday to unionize, joining a wave of newsrooms turning to organized labor amid job cuts and uncertainty in the newspaper