The lawsuit claimed the prisoners were forced into “modern-day slavery” by working jobs at fast food restaurants ... The AP report found the cheap and reliable labor has generated more than $250 ...

These activities have fuelled a cycle of violence and conflict by financing militias and terrorist groups and have contributed to forced child labor and environmental devastation. Also today ...

The story of Torah-observant Jews in America goes back to the very roots of the country. To paraphrase Emma Lazarus’s “New Colossus,” the homeless, tempest-tossed Jews escaped the Spanish ...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, accused many Hispanic voters of having a "slave mentality" for supporting President-elect Donald Trump. "That is my distilled summary of what happens within the ...

After four years under Joe Biden, who enthusiastically called himself “the most pro-union president in American history,” employers and labor groups alike are heading into President-elect ...

Organized labor helped make California a rare Democratic bright spot this election, flipping three House seats. Unions adopted an unusual strategy, shunning partisanship and focusing on the value ...

And for hundreds of years, we were sold into slavery as part of a war, or forcibly stolen from our homes, traded for goods that had come from Europe. Then we were transported thousands of miles ...

Chattel slavery may be gone, activists say, but Americans can still have their labor stolen behind bars. “We don’t have the same kind of abuse anymore, but I think coercion has shifted to ...

5, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) In this Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, the flags of the nations of Benin and Togo, the west African homes of the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, remain on display ...

She referred to the defeat of California’s Proposition 6, which aimed to remove the so-called “slavery loophole” — the clause that allows forced labor as punishment for a crime — from ...