In rural areas, children must contribute to labor rather than attend schools or are unable to purchase school books and any other relevant educational material due to their price. ..…

Powerful utilities and labor unions helped keep coal-burning plants operating and previous governments even planned to expand the number of coal plants to compensate for the pending withdrawal from nuclear power. ..…

The arrests of Ismael Bakhshi, labor rights activist, and Sepideh Gholian, journalist and labor rights activist, came the day after Iranian state television broadcast confessions that they were forced to make in detention. .. ..…

We stand with those in the labor and aviation communities to let Congress and White House know that this government shutdown hurts the employees we represent and impacts the ability of Federal Aviation Administration to conduct important safety-related functions, said Perrone at the rally.. ..…

We’ve done it in the post-war years where we institutionalized collective bargaining and living wage and so many laws from child labor, safety regulation, so many laws that tethered the raw excesses of industrial capitalism to the well being of people and society and democracy. ..…

The sort of old-school, “owners offer, unions demand” language that has marked media treatment of labor for decades. . ... JJ:  I spoke with labor reporter Mike Elk of Payday Report many months ago, talking about the teachers strike in West Virginia. ..…

(On Labor Day, Wuerl met with his priests.) Also on August 30, Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia, a man passed over many times for Cardinal by Pope Francis, announced he had asked the Pope to cancel the month-long October Synod on Youth (and Faith and Vocational Discernment) because the Church has no..…