U.S. Department of Labor

Inmates in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. A hidden path to America's dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country's largest maximum-security prison. Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning series “No Stone Unturned: Preserving Slave Cemeteries in Alabama” aired just as voters headed to the polls in 2023 to remove slavery from the State Constitution. Much of that labor, it was observed, happened among prison inmates.

March of this year marked the end of what was called the longest strike in Alabama history. Coal miners for the Warrior Met company in Brookwood put down their picket signs and resumed the job that some had done for decades. However, these workers say they got something other than a victory at the bargaining table.

Federal labor officials say a recycling center that employs adults with intellectual disabilities in Alabama should have paid hundreds of thousands of…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor says it's fined a construction company approximately $32,000 for not properly protecting against…

A meat processing plant in southeast Alabama has been fined more than $70,000 following an investigation after a worker lost his fingertip in an…

The Alabama Education Association is taking public school teachers’ insurance provider to court.The group says the Public Education Employees’ Health…

Federal labor officials are suing an international automotive supplier and managers of the company’s plant in Selma. They claim the company retaliated…

A House committee has approved an education budget that would give most of the state’s teachers a 4% pay raise.Yesterday, the House Ways and Means…

District 80 of the Alabama House has a new representative.Chris Blackshear won the special election after earning more than 1,650 votes in a special…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be in Alabama today to mark the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.Clinton will be…