Across the country, some officials — overwhelmingly Republicans — are looking for ways to usher underage workers into potentially dangerous jobs like factory work, including having them take ...

Project 2025 Would Exploit Child Labor by Allowing Minors To Work in Dangerous Conditions With Fewer Protections The elimination of protections for young workers, if enacted, would lead more children ...

Washington, D.C. — Federal laws have protected children from dangerous labor practices and workplaces for nearly 100 years—but the radical Project 2025 policy agenda aims to undermine those ...

Project 2025, a sprawling right-wing plan to provide policy and staffing to a future Republican president, proposes an extreme anti-worker agenda that would severely curtail unions’ ability to ...

(NewsNation) — Child labor violations are increasing, and over two dozen states have made moves that are exacerbating the issue, a recent report by Governing for Impact, the Economic Policy Institute ...

The United States Department of Labor alleged on Thursday that Hyundai and two of its supplier companies illegally employed a 13-year-old who was kept working for up to 60 hours a week on an assembly ...

New York City led the way. On Sept. 5, 1882, some 10,000 workers marched to show that trade and labor unions were strong and must be dealt with. They were supposed to be at work, but instead they ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed into law two labor-related measures, one of which prohibits employers from holding mandatory meetings for workers with anti-union messages. In addition to ...

JBS USA Food Co., a leading meat packing processor and slaughterhouse, will provide $4 million to address illegal child labor practices nationwide, according to a Monday announcement from the U.S.

It’s called the “The Bisbee Deportation,” something worth remembering over Labor Day weekend. Especially this Labor Day. On July 12, 1917, armed vigilantes abducted striking mine workers in Bisbee, ...

As Florida officials enable Trump’s mass deportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants. Making its way ...