Unions were also instrumental in ending child labor in the United States. They've exerted a broad influence on American life, reshaping the political, economic, and cultural fabric of the country.

Labor Day offers the next three-day weekend after the Fourth of July. Here's why we celebrate the federal holiday.

The United States labor movement also saw a creative outpouring in the form of union banners.

Apple and the union representing its retail workers in Towson, Maryland, have reached a preliminary labor agreement.

September honors working people, so it's high time to test your knowledge about sit-down strikes, union membership and labor law.

These conflicts often became violent and even fatal. The contention that Pittsburgh sits at the apex of US labor history isn’t universally shared. Local activist Mel Packer said people’s pride in ...

PROGRESSIVES love unions. Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class.

Colorado once fought a guerilla war over labor organizing. Now the fight is in the chambers of the State Capitol.

When was the first Labor Day? Is Labor Day a federal holiday? Here's what you need to know about the history of Labor Day.

History of unions The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act of 1935, codified the right to collectively bargain and create unions and established the National Labor Review Board.

For long after the first Labor Day parade, Union Square and its surrounding neighborhoods remained "the center of leftist and progressive movements and labor organizing in New York City," which ...