In this weekend’s news and commentary, workers at an electric school bus factory in Georgia vote to unionize; the New York City Council passes a bill banning height and weight discrimination; Gold...

Shelby Knowles / CalMatters By Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters At a warehouse tucked into a suburban Bay Area office park, along white folding tables lined up like an assembly line, about 50 people on a ...

Bartiromo to Oversight Chairman Comer on Hunter Biden Probe: "Hold On, Did You Just Say The Whistleblower Is Now ...

United States Representative and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) revealed to Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that a purported "whistleblower" whom congressio...

By Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters CalMatters is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California policy and politics. Lea este artículo en español. At a warehouse tucked into a subur...

While involuntary servitude is largely banned in California, there is one exception — as punishment for a crime. Nationwide, states are reevaluating whether involuntary servitude has a place in pr...

When Guatemalan immigrant Jose Velasquez was 13, he began spending his summers working alongside his mother in North Carolina’s tobacco fields. “I worked 10 to 12 hours a day, five days a week in ...

In 2021, workers at SHoP, a New York architecture firm, filed for a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) union election with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The...

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is on strike. The union representing about 11,500 writers of film, television, radio, and online media announced a walkout as their last three-year contract expi...

Policies protect against potential liability In April, a jury in Massachusetts, cleared four Boston police officers of federal overtime theft and fraud claims, rejecting Department of Justice claim...