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Maryam Rajavi is president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-point Plan for Iran’s future

By NCRI

FILE - A sign advocating union solidarity sits in a window of The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 80 on Oct. 4, 2021, in Burbank, Calif. The union that represents most film and television crew members reached a tentative deal with studios for about 50,000 of its members, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, making another major production-stopping strike unlikely after a year of labor turmoil in Hollywood. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Hollywood crews, studios reach tentative contract deal, making another big strike unlikely

By Andrew Dalton - Associated Press

White coffee cup on background. File photo credit: Dima Sobko via Shutterstock.

Workers at Compass Coffee accuse D.C. company of trying to sabotage union election

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

People arrive before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami Field Office in Miami, Aug. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

DHS agency plans to forgive up to $60,000 for employees’ student loans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Retirees Ron Martin, left, and Willie Mae Hampton, right, join other supporters of the Service Employees International Union at a rally against proposed budget cuts to state provided social safety net programs, in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. On Saturday, June 22, 2024, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control the state Legislature agreed to delay an upcoming minimum wage increase for health care workers to help balance the budget. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California Dems agree to delay increase on health care worker minimum wage to help balance budget

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

Teamsters union president Sean O'Brien talks with President Joe Biden, at the White House in Washington on April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump says Teamsters president will speak at Republican National Convention

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013 photo, a "Pension Promise" sign is seen at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Ill., Jan. 3, 2013. Democrats are putting a spotlight on more than than 1 million union workers and retirees whose pensions are being saved under a law enacted in the summer of 2021. The Butch Lewis Act will ultimately stop cuts to the retirement benefits of 2 million workers and retirees across the country. The law was part of the American Rescue Plan passed by Congress along party lines to ultimately stall the insolvency of roughly 200 multi-employer pension plans for 30 years. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Democrats put a spotlight on more than 1 million pensions saved under a 2021 law

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

A woman puts a tip into a glass jar on a wooden table indoors. (Image: Shutterstock/New Africa) ** FILE **

Senate Republicans propose bill slashing taxes from tips

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks to the podium at a campaign event Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Trump pits minority voters against illegal immigrants in effort to soften Biden coalition

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FILE - A hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Wheeling, Ill., May 16, 2024. On Thursday, June 20, 2024, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

U.S. jobless claims fall to 238,000 from 10-month high, remain low by historical standards

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Signs supporting the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union are shown near an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Workers are winning union elections at the highest rate in 16 years

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 17, 2021, in Washington. From left, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif, Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., Opal Lee, Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., obscured, Vice President Kamala Harris, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

In celebrating Juneteenth, Black Americans can’t help but feel left behind

By Clement Troutman

People leave the entrance to the Amazon San Bernardino Fulfillment Center, Oct. 29, 2013, in San Bernardino, Calif. California has hit Amazon with two separate fines totaling $5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant violated a law designed to protect warehouse employees from requirements that they work so quickly that it risks their safety, officials said Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/David McNew, File)

California labor board fines Amazon $5.9 million for work violations

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A Model X sports-utility vehicle sits outside a Tesla store in Littleton, Colo., June 18, 2023. Electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries, Chinese state media reported Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Musk says high-performing Tesla employees to get stock options

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Letters representing Amazon Labor Union adorn a fence adjacent to the Amazon distribution center on Staten Island in New York on Oct. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Amazon Labor Union votes to join Teamsters

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - An employee in protective clothing works at the furnace at the steel producer, the Salzgitter AG, in Salzgitter, Germany, Thursday, March 22, 2018. Germany's biggest industrial union said Monday, June 17, 2024, it will seek a 7% pay increase for millions of workers in negotiations starting later this year, arguing that companies including automakers and machinery manufacturers are in a comfortable position. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany’s biggest industrial union seeks a 7% raise for millions of workers

Associated Press

K'Jan Mason, a student of Hendry County Adult Learning participating in the welding program checks the torch prior to a welding project on Thursday, March 14 ,2024. The program helps adults gain the necessary experience to receive certification and immediately enter the local workforce after completion in Clewiston, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris Tilley)

A new airport could spark the economy in a rural part of Florida. Will the workforce be ready?

By Nick Fouriezos of Open Campus - Associated Press

Cornerstone of the Southern Poverty Law Center in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. File photo credit: Mccallk69 via Shutterstock.

Southern Poverty Law Center accused of union-busting after firing more than 60 workers

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

This Jan. 13, 2021 file photo shows a Wells Fargo office in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Wells Fargo fires employees for faking work with keyboard simulators

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Construction workers install roofing on a high rise in Manhattan's financial district on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) **FILE**

Feds should pay more for workforce training to meet demand for blue-collar labor, report says

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times