Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Labor unions have a long history in the United States of advocating for workers rights. But in recent years, some unions, ...

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.

Sioux Falls labor leaders will host a public picnic on Sept. 7 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1935 "Bloody Friday" strike. The 1935 strike at the John Morrell & Co. meatpacking plant ...

Some American trade unionists have argued that labor should remain “neutral” on the question of Palestine. In fact, the US labor movement has never been neutral: its union officialdom has a ...

From agriculture to meatpacking to service work, immigration enforcement functions as labor discipline. Minnesota’s mass strike against ICE points toward a reckoning with the agency that the labor ...