As Labor Day comes this year, US workers and the labor movement face a critical juncture. In some ways, labor is on a roll. Petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ...

Federal appellate judges asked lawyers for three federal employee unions and the Trump administration to submit new legal briefs following a murky discussion Monday of the outer limits of presidential ...

Voters belonging to labor unions have long been an important fixture of the Democratic party. However, in today’s political climate, these voters are increasingly being drawn to the Republican party.

Even in the mid-20th century, leaders understood that organized labor was not only a bargaining tool but a pillar of economic credibility. Addressing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ...

Today, the U.S. labor movement is a shadow of its former self. Union membership has declined dramatically since labor’s heyday in the 1950s, when roughly a third of the U.S. workforce was unionized.

The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, by the Central Labor Union. They celebrated again a year later, but this was long before it became a national holiday.

Mr. Loomis is a historian of labor who writes extensively about unions, politics and workers. This is a most unfortunate Labor Day for labor. The labor movement has taken it on the chin repeatedly in ...

You can spend a lifetime studying the rich history of the labor movement. While you are doing that, new union battles and campaigns will constantly arise. Laws will change, the economy will change, ...

In the late 1990s, as AFL-CIO president John Sweeney led the federation’s ultimately failed program to boost union organizing, the phrase “organize or die” was standard rhetoric in labor leader ...

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Ohio's labor unions have traditionally supported Democratic candidates, but in recent years, some have started shifting to ...