A significant portion of the abundance movement views unions as a barrier that needs to be overcome in the name of efficiency. The post-Reconstruction United States has never seen durable progressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, the AFL-CIO consisted of 56 unions. Today, as the organization continues it 50th birthday celebration in Chicago, the Teamsters and the Service Employees International have taken away some ...

The United States is home to seventeen million military veterans. About 1.3 million of them currently work in union jobs, ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, Staughton Lynd has been a leading radical in the United States. He was an engaged supporter of the Black Liberation Movement in the Deep South in the early 1960s, most notably ...

The history of organized labor is long and brutal. The history of May Day, the holiday honoring the organized labor movement (it's also called International Workers' Day), was likewise born out of ...

The Association for Union Democracy’s conference on combating corruption in labor unions was proven especially timely with the arrest of a major labor figure last week. Even as reformers, lawyers and ...

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 ...