Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate, and his home-state colleague, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), voted Thursday for a Republican bill to pay essential federal ...

Democrats blocked a Republican-led attempt to provide essential government workers with paychecks amid an ongoing, 23-day shutdown, calling the bill overly selective and incomplete. That bill, ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats are proposing to give doctors, nurses and other essential workers, such as grocery store clerks, up to $25,000 in hazard pay as part ...

DENVER, Co. – The checkout line is now part of the front line of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of the great risk millions of workers in grocery stores and essential businesses were forced into by ...

Newly-classified "essential workers" talk risking their lives for minimum wage. David Williams described his wife of 19 years, Vitalina, as "the most wonderful lady on the face of the planet." "Me ...

Air travel chaos grips U.S. amid government shutdown, Oregon AG calls out Trump, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x As the federal government shutdown has dragged into its seventh day, questions remain ...

The Senate adjourned for the weekend at 4:43 p.m. The chamber will not meet Friday and will instead reconvene at 3 p.m. on Monday, on what will be Day 27 of the shutdown, barring unforeseen ...

Kroger is closing 3 stores in LA after a new law mandated an extra $5 an hour for essential workers. Kroger also closed stores in Seattle and Long Beach, California, following hazard pay laws. Across ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A strike for better pay and protection by local nursing home workers entered a second week. The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Chicago Teachers Union joined the striking workers ...

Oakland, California, became the latest city to require large supermarkets to give workers a raise Tuesday, citing the risk the workers face amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the San Francisco ...