Compared to their counterparts around the world, US trade unions have historically been reluctant to undertake broad programmatic and transformative agendas. The division emerged most clearly in the ...

Observed each year on the first Monday of September, Labor Day is also a celebration of the hard-won achievements of America's labor movement.

Alex Han of In These Times and Tarso Luís Ramos speak about the vital role of worker organizing in an age of growing authoritarianism. Alex Han, left, Tarso Romas, right. The United States is changing ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Throughout history, Chicago has been at the center of the American Labor Movement. On Saturday, union members celebrated ...

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 ...