The magisterium of the Church has long called for social and economic institutions to protect the interests of workers and has affirmed the dignity of work. But what does the dignity of work entail? Following Pope St. John Paul II, Columnist Kenneth
When Unite Here Local 11, the Los Angeles-based branch of the international labor union representing 300,000 U.S. and Canadian workers, announced March 25 an historic labor agreement with 35 Southern California hotels, the victory came with an asterisk attached.
The largest hotel worker
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities that left 1,200 dead and over 250 kidnapped, Lo'ay Ayyad, 48, a father of two and a successful veteran tour guide in the region, has been largely unemployed as the tourism industry
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Feb. 21 a nationwide, temporary restraining order and injunction against Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial LLC, which the Labor Department alleges illegally hired 15 children -- some as young as age 13 -- in Virginia and at least
A young woman recently went viral on social media for a video in which she lamented the difficulties of working her full-time job. “I have to work 40 hours a week just so I can have a place to live,” she says
The occasions in which we are expected to tip have multiplied in recent years. Michael Pakaluk explores the merits and demerits of tipping, concluding that the practice can be sanctified and imbued with a sense of the person, just as work can
In the past 12 months, an extraordinary level of nationwide activity -- organizing, strikes, negotiations and new contracts -- has signaled increased influence for American labor unions, which once counted 21 million U.S. workers among their ranks.
But any widespread union resurgence still
Less than two weeks after the United Auto Workers secured historic concessions from the nation's "Big Three" automakers, another prominent union can claim a significant victory: the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
When coffee giant Starbucks on Nov. 6 rolled out new employee benefits -- including pay raises, earlier vacation accrual and more flexible scheduling -- it also announced that workers at its unionized stores will not be entitled to those benefits while collective
Though the health care workers strike -- which included workers across several states -- raises questions about negative effects on patient care, Catholic labor advocates and medical ethicists say all parties to the labor disputes make plans to avoid harm.