They're often paid low wages and lack job protections. A petition to the country's supreme court to support their demands did ...

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A Republican-dominated panel of Florida lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a proposal that would allow employers in Florida to legally pay certain entry-level workers less than the state minimum wage of ...

Republican lawmakers are trying to revive an effort to create an exemption to the state's voter-approved minimum wage that would apply to workers classified as trainees. The GOP-controlled House ...

In Germany’s recent election – held in February 2025 – the AfD managed to become the second-strongest political force, ...

Most American dairy cows are milked by immigrants. On Dale Hemminger’s farm in upstate New York, the cows are milked by robots. When a cow wants to be milked, it walks up to a machine that cleans its ...

“Learn a Trade” isn’t just a rallying cry for younger generations to skip college and pursue in-demand blue-collar work. For burned-out white-collar workers, it has become a popular midcareer fantasy.

A new survey finds many American workers feel their pay is not keeping up with the rising cost of living. More than half of workers have less than three months of living expenses saved in case of a ...

With 300,000 employees gone and collective-bargaining rights eliminated, the administration has hobbled organized labor. Did it also start a movement? Credit...Illustration by Tim Enthoven Supported ...

In its latest effort to weaken the federal workforce, the Trump administration issued a rule on Thursday that would shift an estimated 50,000 senior career staffers into a new category that would make ...

Unions in Minnesota and across the country are gearing up for new mass actions after the public execution of one of their own, ICU nurse and American Federation of Government Employees Local 3669 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...