Discover how organized labor and unions empower workers to negotiate better wages and conditions. Learn about collective bargaining and its impact on industries.
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.
The Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME affirmed the First Amendment rights of public employees to opt out of ...
America’s unions have had much to celebrate on recent Labor Days. Not this year. President Donald Trump is trying to strip collective bargaining rights from approximately one million unionized federal ...
Today, the U.S. labor movement is a shadow of its former self. Union membership has declined dramatically since labor’s heyday in the 1950s, when roughly a third of the U.S. workforce was unionized.
How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work? Seattle, Washington, 2022. If you’re looking for a bright spot in today’s political and social gloom, the union idea seems to be it. Organized labor ...