Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there.

In July, the AFL-CIO gathered to celebrate its 50th birthday, only to see its two biggest unions go their own way. The organization was once 56 unions continues, minus 25 percent of its members and a ...

For the past 90 years, the ability of private-sector employees to form unions, collectively bargain, and engage in union-protected activities has fallen under the purview of the National Labor ...

Organized labor’s complex involvement in financial markets would only become more pronounced in the 1980s, when its massive funds came under the control of asset management companies who managed them ...

As union membership declines and regulators turn against workers, maybe we need to start talking about some radical change to the way the labor movement works. More than 55,000 striking members of ...

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead.

Pope Leo XIV met with a delegation of labor leaders from his native Chicago earlier this month. In his remarks, the pope commended them for their support for the church and for their work to better ...

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 ...