Despite BlueOval SK’s plans to shutter its electric vehicle battery factory in Glendale nextmonth, workers there have officially won their union election.

Recreational Equipment Inc. workers at a Eugene, Ore., store will get a second chance at a union election after an NLRB judge ...

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...

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

Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta.” The Wagner Act — or, more formally, the National Labor Relations Act — ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. Union membership has been on the decline for some time. The ...

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.

For the last year, we have been bombarded with articles and information about the potential impact of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, an amendment to the National Labor Relations Act. The EFCA, ...

While Labor Day marks the unofficial end to the summer for many, the national holiday was designed to celebrate the hard-won achievements of America’s labor movement. The holiday has its roots in the ...

Anticipating a rollback of recent NLRB precedent, some unions have withdrawn petitions for recognition, looking for other paths to continue their work. Student workers and their supporters at ...

A group of Republicans has unveiled a new tranche of legislation to update federal labor law, part of a push to revamp laws to fit the modern economy. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate ...