State and municipal officials on both sides of the political spectrum are increasingly taking on public employees unions--promising to cut pensions, freeze salaries, and inhibit collective bargaining- ...

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) ...

Labor unions traditionally aligned with the Democratic Party in recent decades, but leading conservatives are now arguing on behalf of organized labor, though not necessarily for traditional labor ...

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.