Labor

A labor group is suing the federal government over a proposed wage freeze for foreign... (more)

Workers in the agricultural and food production fields have been hit especially hard by COVID-19.... (more)

Meatpacking plants have proven to be one of rural America’s worst vectors for spreading COVID-19.... (more)

The Department of Labor has finalized new rules that advocates say will limit farmworkers’ hourly... (more)

There are many ways in which agricultural labor—despite being difficult, dangerous, and necessary—is treated differently... (more)

The federal labor department’s Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it will fine Smithfield... (more)

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom called the Central Valley “our biggest area of concern.”... (more)

In late June, prominent senators (and former presidential candidates) Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker opened... (more)

It isn’t just meatpacking plants that have been hotspots for COVID-19 to spread within the... (more)