“The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015.” By Martha Mendoza.

Trump’s company battled unions during his campaign, but the deal ends a bitter dispute over pay at his Las Vegas hotel and eases discord at his D.C. property. By Jonathan O'Connell and Drew Harwell.

With Capitol Hill controlled by Republicans and the president-elect likely to nominate a conservative supreme court justice, unions ‘hunker down.’ By Steven Greenhouse.

My constituents are shocked that Amber Rudd has ruled out an inquiry into the behaviour of South Yorkshire police in June 1984. Our fight will continue. By Sarah Champion.

The ruling class will never give up fossil fuel, because it's key to their power over workers. By Troy Vettese.

More time at home with the family isn't a bad excuse. By Jeffrey Kaplan.

Jeremy Corbyn has received a huge boost after up to 130,000 Labour Party members won the right to vote in the upcoming leadership election. By Laura Hughes.

Selected Translations from "Factory Stories"

Smiles and waves at annual Durham event as leader goes off script but division and suspicion among unions and party undermine message of solidarity. By Helen Pidd.

Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and unions representing nearly 40,000 wireline workers have reached a tentative deal "in principle" to end a strike that started April 13th, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said on Friday.

The company wants to crochet its cake and eat it too. By Amy Larocca.

Film-maker Jennifer Peedom and the son of history’s most famous Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, on how his people are stuck between a rock and a hard place. By Luke Buckmaster.

From factories to cubicles to open offices to Slack channels. By Carter Maness.

Pro-labor groups in Brazil released the annual list of companies fined by the government for keeping employees in slave-like conditions. The Brazilian Institute to Eradicate Slave Labor (InPACTO) released on Friday an updated list of 340 Brazilian companies fined by the Ministry of Labor for keeping employees in slave-like conditions, during the two year period from 2013-2015. Through the Access to Information Act, Reporter Brasil and...

After the Civil War, workers struggled to make wage labor go the way of chattel slavery.

During the Cold War, they guarded America’s nuclear weapons facilities. Now they are dying of cancer, as the U.S. government looks the other way. By Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins.

How South Africa's beverages industry changed the labour game. By Richard Poplak, Diana Neille, Sumeya Gasa and Shaun Swingler.

Uber drivers are getting creative in their fight for basic workplace rights. By Steven Greenhouse.

A writer becomes a carrier for the United States Postal Service out of a long-held love for the mail. What she discovers are screams, threats, lies, labor violations, and dog attacks. By Jess Stoner.

Founders of Amazon, eBay and Uber join forces to "disrupt" the trucking industry. with the goal of doing to the trucking industry what Uber has done for taxis. Here's what that means. By Mark Ames.