Terri Gerstein

An op-ed by Terri Gerstein: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas signed a bill this month rolling back the state’s child labor protections, making it…

An op-ed by Terri Gerstein: Earlier this month, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced the conviction of a construction company owner for criminally negligent homicide…

Weeks into his new job as Manhattan district attorney last year, Alvin Bragg faced a firestorm: Two senior prosecutors heading the office’s four-year investigation of…

Children are working some of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. according to a new investigation by The New York Times. Migrant children are…

Nearly five years after a construction worker was crushed to death by 15,000 pounds of building materials at a work site in Sunset Park, Brooklyn,…

An article co-written by Terri Gerstein: How many Americans start the day with a bowl of Cheerios and milk? Certainly thousands, and maybe even millions;…

Two years after his boss shorted him thousands of dollars in pay for his construction work, Marcos Tlacopilco won in court. When he learned the…

An op-ed by Terri Gerstein: Why should your boss be able to stop you from getting a new job? There’s no good reason, which is…

An op-ed by Terri Gerstein: My family lived in Albany, New York, 15 years ago, when our teenage sons were toddlers. On nights when kids…

The Supreme Court of the United States got back into the swing of things its first week back after New Years, with a case about…

An  op-ed by Terri Gerstein: Should your employer be able to stop you from getting a new job? If you have a summer internship, for…

An article co-written by Terri Gerstein: Remember those pesky analogy questions on the SAT? Here’s one for you, straight from Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral…

At least four major suppliers of Hyundai Motor Co and sister Kia Corp have employed child labor at Alabama factories in recent years, a Reuters…

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) could put the U.S. on the path to becoming the world’s “premier energy supplier,” according to a new report from…

An article by Terri Gerstein: The latest child labor case to make headlines is shocking even if you’re jaded about what companies are capable of…

Afederal judge on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction against an industrial cleaning company, ordering the company to end its use of “oppressive child labor” after…

Twitter on Friday laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company, in a severe round of cost cutting that could potentially upend how…

An op-ed by Terri Gerstein, a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the Economic Policy Institute. J.D. Vance, the Ohio…

Labor protests around the U.S. have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic as employees across a range of industries have pushed for better pay and working…

An article by Terri Gerstein: As Hurricane Ian wreaks devastation on Florida’s coast, with the possibility of continuing up through Georgia and the Carolinas, here’s…

An article co-written by Terri Gerstein: If you were planning to spend Thursday stocking up on toilet paper in advance of a seemingly imminent freight-railroad…