America's employers added a surprisingly strong 254,000 jobs in September, easing concerns about a weakening labor market and ...

The department doesn't explain how a pay cut will lead more people — not less — to travel to another country to work for ...

On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report.

Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day as ...

The American labor market is reaching a critical turning point that could tighten labor availability in rural industries and slow growth across the U.S. economy. A new quarterly report from CoBank’s ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration is throwing foreigners out of work and shaking the American ...

Walking orchards in the Central Valley, is something Scott Peters’ family has done for four generations. With his great grandfather settling in the fertile valley in 1933, the family has been immersed ...

F OR ALMOST 80 years, since America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics began dividing data by gender, at least one story has been ...

Colonial America certainly benefited from the fact that early settlers were self-selecting risk-takers willing to cross a dangerous ocean and start life over in the new world. Because they were tough, ...

It took more than a century for Chicago’s Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. (Photo by Jeffrey Sklansky) In much of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin ...

Jeffrey Sklansky is a member of UIC United Faculty, the labor union representing the bargaining units of Tenure/Tenure-Track and full-time Non-Tenure Track faculty at the University of Illinois ...