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On Tuesday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Sound On,” Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) acknowledged that the Inflation Reduction Act should have had more worker protections in it as it pushed a transition to electric vehicles, but stated that “what we’ve done is

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” UAW President Shawn Fain discussed endorsing a candidate in the 2024 presidential race and stated that there are issues with workers possibly being left behind in the transition from internal combustion engines to

Workers at a jewelry store in El Monte, California, did not allow a suspected thief get what he wanted on Saturday.

Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office is hoping to draw high-skilled workers and companies to the state and away from red states by marketing Michigan’s lax laws around abortion and LGBT+ issues as “freedom.”

Cassidy rebuked the Biden administration for transforming a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.

Employees at approximately 150 Starbucks stores are reportedly gathering to strike Friday regarding LGBTQQIAAP2s+ Pride decor.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have “declared war” on workers and small businesses with their tax-hiking autumn budget, according to Nigel Farage.

LONDON (AP) – Thousands of UK train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. The action was the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel.

A 22-year-old woman in eastern China’s Hangzhou city recently died after “days of overwork” in which she reportedly toiled nearly without pause for four to five consecutive days at an internet company, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

The Starbucks Corporation announced Monday that it is closing 16 stores in the U.S. because of safety concerns for workers, including incidents of violence and drug use on the premises.

Eurocrats in Belgium and Luxembourg have been given an inflation-busting raise despite the EU telling its member states to avoid pumping worker pay to help with the cost of living crisis.

Dubai-owned P&O Ferries has sparked a political firestorm after deciding to fire its 800 British crewmembers in favour of foreign labour.

British energy bills look set to increase some 14 times faster than British wages in 2022, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned. 

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has made an astonishing request of British workers, telling them to help the state control inflation by not asking bosses for pay rises.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) argued that part of the reason for the labor shortage is that there are “a certain amount of people that are very responsive to

The media are blaming workers for empty grocery store shelves even as President Biden has failed to stop the virus or fix the supply chain.

Mayo Clinic fired 700 employees at locations nationwide on Tuesday because they were not vaccinated by the organization’s Monday deadline.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand’s government said Tuesday it will expand a vaccine mandate to include thousands of workers who have close contact with their customers — including employees at restaurants, bars, gyms and hair salons.

LONDON (AP) – Millions of low-pay workers in Britain will get an inflation-busting pay increase next year after the government said Monday it will legislate to raise the National Living Wage to £9.50 ($13) an hour from the current rate of £8.91 ($12.25).

Vice President Kamala said on Wednesday that workers not making enough money is partly to blame for the supply chain crisis.

The Vegan Society has said that vegans should be given their own shelf in refrigerators at work and employers should protect them from offensive jokes about their dietary choices.

The general manager of a northern Virginia bakery is accused of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled employee.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is vowing to tackle uncertain work schedules if she makes it into the Oval Office, unveiling a big government plan to require companies employing 15 people or more of posting schedules two weeks in advance as part of her effort to champion workers under her “Fair Workweek” proposal.

Amazon.com, Inc. — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — is selling items manufactured in foreign factories with dangerous working conditions and where workers are treated as slave labor, a new report alleges. 

Wages and salaries for men and women working full-time, year-round rose last year.

The Central Bank of Ireland believes that not enough migrants are arriving to have a “wage-dampening effect”, and that “if wages are not downwardly flexible” it could become a “concern”.

“We’ve gotten so damn sophisticated, we’ve gotten so damn elitist,” Biden said, accusing the elites of failing to respect blue-collar workers. “I hate the way things have changed over the last 15-20 years.”

The White House’s economic staffers strongly suggested Tuesday there is no need for extra immigrant workers to fill new jobs in President Donald Trump’s go-go economy.

“Could somebody please explain to Nancy & her ‘big donors’ in wine country that people working on farms (grapes) will have easy access in!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

“I would love to see a big immigration bill where we really take care of the situation,” Trump said during an Oval Office bill signing ceremony to combat human trafficking. “We would like to see real immigration reform in this country because we need it, and it would be a beautiful thing.”

While much of President Trump’s attention has been focused on illegal immigration and the soaring level of border-crossers at the United States-Mexico border, reforms to the country’s legal immigration system remain one of the key tenets of his “America First” agenda.

Republican Pete Stauber, a former professional hockey player, beat Democrat Joe Radinovich in Minnesota’s 8th District by running on a populist, economic- nationalist platform. 

America’s working class is benefitting the most when President Trump tightens the country’s labor market through illegal and legal immigration controls, new data reveals. 

President Trump’s tightened labor market is giving Maryland’s seafood industry reason to complain, mainly because they want to import more foreign workers to do U.S. blue-collar jobs.

“Before I used to say, ‘You are going to have a friend,’ but now I have proven you have got a friend in the White House,” Trump said to a crowd of about 400 union workers and supporters at the Richfield union training facility.

President Trump’s pro-American immigration agenda may be longed for by the Republican base, but GOP lawmakers and White House staffers remain unwilling to prioritize the most important issue for midterm voters. Last week, Trump signed the omnibus spending bill, a