Angelo Young

Nike proved it can grow business and reduce dependence on labor. This doesn't bode well for low-wage factory workers in Asia, or anywhere.

While the decline doesn't correspond with a fall in sales, the biggest cuts have come from Asia, where most of the company’s products are made.

The largest telecom in the U.S. has already shed about 22 percent of its workforce since 2007.

For two years running, Toyota’s Prius has been the top-selling car in the largest U.S. market. Honda just knocked it off that perch.

The maker of the luxury Model S electric car has upped hiring by about 13 percent in its home state.

Labor rights advocates and union representatives are calling this the largest-ever strike to hit U.S. fast-food companies.

Labor rights organizers and employees of the world’s largest fast-food chains have taken global a U.S. movement demanding higher wages.

The science isn't definitive, but something seems to be giving Samsung workers cancer.

The Korean tech giant apologized for cancer-stricken factory workers but didn't admit link between assembly line and grave.

A retail slowdown in April--and cuts to food stamps--may affect Wal-Mart's first quarter earnings.

Dozens of labor activists are facing charges over recent demonstrations. Meanwhile, two youths, including a minor, are facing 11 years for incitement.

For college students in Syria's intellectual centers, staying in school has become an increasingly hard battle to win.

Retailers across the US will keep a close eye on US shipyard labor negotiations as they gear up for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

The IMF aren’t ready to declare “Mission Accomplished" just yet and warn of lingering threats.

Tesla is expected to report 24 percent more revenue but lower net income as the company continues to invest heavily.

Canada grapples with reforming its foreign worker policy as the number of foreign temps is set to exceed permanent immigrants by 2015.

U.S. steelmakers say the government should impose punitive tariffs against South Korea.

The 59-year-old executive gets more than $9 million for leaving voluntarily, but he would have got more than $17 million had he been pushed out.

US businesses are hiring at levels unseen in years, but more low-paying jobs and an eroding middle class is the new reality.

Deliveries were up 8% from April 2013 but down 10% from March. Consumers flocked to SUVs and trucks.

Buick and GMC sales rose at a double-digit rate - their highest April sales total in more than four years.

NELP estimates that 120 cities have enacted rules requiring higher wages for businesses that receive public contracts.

Toyota says that union cards are not verifiable and should have been signed no longer than six months ago.

The world’s "Big 8" automakers grew U.S. new-auto sales on the back of discounts and rebates.

Eighty-five college football athletes could rattle the NCAA system by voting to unionize, but we probably won't know for months.

A union has called for a factory vote, and a government bureau has ordered Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings to provide past unpaid social insurance.

Efforts by the nation's government and multinational corporations to ensure safety in the workplace have a decidedly mixed record.

CEO compensation far outpaced average-worker pay in publicly listed hospitality and food services companies.

Supplier for branded shoes attempts to quell largest Chinese labor action in years as workers at second plant return to work.