Organizers for the independent Amazon Labor Union , which stunned the world when it won a union election to represent several thousand workers at the corporate behemoth's facility in Staten Island, New York, are now waging a wider battle against Amazon's labor practices. The union lost a May 2 vote at a smaller Staten Island facility that primarily relies on part-time workers, but says it is reviewing its legal options amid reports that Amazon may have tried to intimidate workers...

Following a long slump , crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel...

Twitter shareholders will vote on a proposal to turn the beleaguered social media juggernaut into a user-owned company. In Twitter’s proxy statement, which publicly held companies are required to file to the U ...

Philippe Dauman’s ouster as president, CEO and chairman of media giant Viacom couldn’t have come sooner for investors who have watched the media company fail to keep up with the times. Amid a nasty battle for control over the empire that geriatric media mogul Sumner Redstone built, Dauman emerged as a potent symbol of poor corporate governance ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule last week requiring that large publicly held corporations disclose the ratios of the pay of their top CEOs to the pay of their median workers. About time. For the last thirty years almost all incentives operating on American corporations have resulted in lower pay for average workers and higher pay for CEOs and other top executives...

Joseph Stiglitz has won a Nobel Prize for economics. So why has he apparently been blacklisted by regulators?

A frightening new government report reveals just how vulnerable we remain in the wake of the Great Recession...

The former secretary of labor on the controversial California legislation that could fix our flagging economy...

They wrecked havoc on the world financial system. Now they're living in luxurious exile...

What Michael Winston knows about corporate crimes will horrify you. That's why financial giants want to destroy him...