Labor Day 2022 seemed to me “the most promising moment for unions in several decades.” That year, young workers were trying to organize new unions from coast to coast, and labor unions enjoyed over 70 ...

Millions of demonstrators across the country came out into the streets on June 14 at more than 2,000 protests in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Organizers estimated that the mobilization, called “No ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Throughout history, Chicago has been at the center of the American Labor Movement. On Saturday, union members celebrated their rich legacies on the Far South Side in Pullman.

While the proponents of “abundance” may vary in their disposition toward unions, many of the organizations bankrolling the movement seek to roll back the power of organized labor. Machinists Union ...

SAN FRANCISCO — California’s Year of Abundance just crashed into political reality. For months, Democrats here raved about an ascendant movement to supercharge housing and energy infrastructure, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) Most of the world ...

Tomorrow in downtown Los Angeles, mourners plan a procession to Our Lady of Angels Cathedral in honor of a migrant farm worker who became one of LA's most powerful political leaders. Fifty-two ...

President Trump defended firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming job numbers were “phony” before the election and later revised. He also confirmed moving U.S. nuclear submarines ...

As some parts of Texas face stifling heat, there's still several more weeks of the hottest part of the year. Labor Day has long been an unofficial mark of the end of summer — and the next three-day ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Erica Groshen, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about employment data and what politicization of the agency could do to future numbers. The U.S. Bureau ...