It was only after the advent of the American Federation of Labor, set up by Samuel Gompers in 1886 and acting as a national federation of unions for skilled workers, that the labor movement became ...

Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers. Yet the flip side of change is opportunity. Until the past few decades, labor unions were in constant change, as their history attests. The ...

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The panicked workers inside, many of them young immigrant women and some as young as fourteen, cried out for help and tried to flee, but they found locked exit doors and broken fire escapes.

The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) crucially stepped up production in their occupations and settlements to meet the needs of Brazil’s urban poor after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Neither jail nor exile to Hong Kong has stopped Han Dongfang, a former Tiananmen Square protest leader, from championing ...

A growing movement of people who believe that laws do not apply to them threatens police and law enforcement around the world, experts and officials say. So-called sovereign citizens believe they ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Rick Halpern is professor and Biussell-Heyd Chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto. Among many other books, he is the author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. Every task a person takes on is a potential landmine. If they make a ...

She and 47 other students from six different Chatham County high schools are serving as poll workers in a program meant to expose Savannah-area youths to the foundation of the democratic process.

A sideline worker at the Tennessee Titans’ Nissan Stadium was carted off the field Sunday during the Titans’ game against the Indianapolis Colts after being knocked down by Tennessee ...