Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A youngster holds up a pro-union sign at Laborfest. (Photo by Erik Gunn, States Newsroom.) Labor unions exist to negotiate legally ...

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.

Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill keep uniting behind bad ideas that would make workers worse off, and the Faster Labor Contracts Act is the latest example. In this case, however, the ...

Mr. Loomis is a historian of labor who writes extensively about unions, politics and workers. This is a most unfortunate Labor Day for labor. The labor movement has taken it on the chin repeatedly in ...

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 ...