Politics Bill would let rideshare drivers unionize, the latest salvo in the gig economy battle by Brian Joseph • Capitol Weekly July 4, 2025, 11:00 a.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education ...

AB 1340 “has the potential to empower hundreds of thousands of workers, giving more Californians the right to organize,” Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks said.

David Keeling would take over the workplace-safety agency just as it is considering rules to protect against extreme heat. His former employers, UPS and Amazon, have opposed the rules.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

House Republicans have lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term ...

In 2023, Atlanta created a new quasi-public entity to co-develop mixed-income housing on city-owned land. In 2024, Rhode Island voters and the Massachusetts legislature funded pilot projects to test ...

April 4, 2017 - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, after Kimberly Hively sues Ivy Tech Community College for ...

Healthcare workers at Holy Family Hospital locations in Methuen and Haverhill, Mass., have voted to unionize. The move covers more than 70 professionals — among them respiratory therapists ...

As the tech industry moves increasingly into alignment with the far right, the issue of worker power has never been more ...

Massachusetts is preparing for record-breaking traffic this July 4th, with a surge in drivers expected to hit the roads for holiday travel.