The labor movement in the United States used to be “very anti-immigration,” said Jacob Remes, a labor historian and a ...

They might not get as much praise and recognition, but Black women have served as the driving force and the foundation of many of the most transformative and important movements. It’s a cycle that ...

Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s ...

Democrats took a stab at the policy during last year’s legislative session and worked for months to find a compromise between ...

Authoritarian socialists, communists, and even some anarchists believe that the labor movement and the socialist/anarchist movement are the same and share identical goals. In this article, I want to ...

Pensions are not considered the sexiest corner of the labor movement. But they are one of the most important. The final frontier of thought about the labor movement’s pension money is the realization ...

Labor Day 2022 seemed to me “the most promising moment for unions in several decades.” That year, young workers were trying to organize new unions from coast to coast, and labor unions enjoyed over 70 ...

With Labor Day kicking off the month, it’s an appropriate time to consider the meaning of the holiday, not just as a summer sendoff and ushering in of fall, but as a holiday meant to honor the ...

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 ...

From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. is widely celebrated for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, but a new exhibit in Catherwood Library seeks to shed light on his lesser-known role in the history of ...