Employee Participation

Republic/Allied Waste employees in the Teamster division are protesting what they see as poor treatment and labor law violations in Buffalo, N.Y.; Mobile, Ala.; Atlanta; San Jose, Calif.; and Canton, Ohio.

Fifty percent of U.S. workers earned less than $26,364 last year, reflecting a growing income gap between the nation's rich and poor, the government reported Thursday.

Unemployment rates fell in half of U.S. states last month, a sign that September's pickup in hiring was felt around the country.

A new contract between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union will raise the automaker's labor costs by less than 1 percent a year, reaching a company goal of holding the costs steady, executives said Thursday.

A ballot battle over whether to keep Ohio's tough new restrictions on public employee unions could give labor supporters and Democrats a lift going into the presidential election year. But some Democrats fear losing the Nov. 8 referendum could be another dispiriting setback that saps enthusiasm from the party's progressive...

Regardless of the high jobless numbers, American manufacturers are having trouble filling as many as 600,000 skilled positions, a new survey from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute reveals.