Barbara Rose

It's been 31 years since Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft Corp. The software powerhouse now runs most of the world's computers and he is the richest...

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out in cities across the country Monday to support immigrant rights. Rallies, marches and vigils are planned in 102 cities, including...

Undocumented workers--often invisible, sometimes exploited--install drywall, chop meat and lettuce, make hotel beds and clear restaurant tables. Twelve million strong, they have found allies in Congress' debate about immigration reform...

For Ken Trammell, the chief financial officer of Lake Forest-based Tenneco Inc., Monday's announcement that Ford Motor Co. would slash up to 30,000 jobs and close 14 plants hardly came...

A new Maryland law requiring Wal-Mart Stores to spend more on employee health care sent shudders Friday through the business community while emboldening labor's campaign to enact similar measures in...

Trucks filled with relief supplies rumbled towards Gulf Coast cities Thursday while barges floated down the Mississippi River carrying corn and soybeans. A major railway reopened its freight line to...

Building engineer Don Lasota knows little about his union's history-making split from the AFL-CIO, a move that could weaken or revitalize a labor movement struggling to halt a decades-long decline...

Carly Fiorina, a tough executive with almost rock-star visibility, was forced out of the top job at Hewlett-Packard Co. Wednesday after failing to deliver the promised benefits of a controversial...

Federal civil-rights lawyers on Thursday sued Chicago-based Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, one of the nation's biggest law firms, alleging age discrimination in a case that could sharply curtail the...