The New York attorney general’s wage-theft suit could pave the way for unionizing workplaces across different owner-operators.

Our tax dollars are subsidizing both the fast-food workers who need the help and the companies' CEOs who don’t.

Activist Saru Jayaraman — who is being honored at the White House today — recently talked to Bill about the fight for better wages and working conditions for America's 10 million restaurant workers.

More than 1,600 current and former employees of the fast food franchise will receive payment.

The idea is popular, so low-wage employers have come up with a number of red herrings.

Industry plays up the image of the food snob to keep us divided, but the stereotype hides a much more diverse and savvy movement, says best-selling author and food activist Michael Pollan.

Thanks to a loophole that subsidizes CEO pay, huge food chains trimmed millions from their tax bills in 2011 and 2012. Guess who foots the bill?

A perfect example of a private company using the social safety net to increase their bottom line.

Fearless farmworkers show us the powerful potential of grassroots groups to agitate for change.

A new study says half of fast food workers are on public assistance programs that spend $243 billion each year on the working poor.