The resurgence of the American labor movement is being led in no small part by a cohort of young, diverse, fired-up workers around the country. Union density remains embarrassingly low overall, but ...

While most of us of us have come to associate Labor Day with mattress sales, car deals and/or backyard barbecues on a three-day weekend, very few people make the leap to a celebration of workers, ...

Labor Day represents more than the symbolic end of summer and another three-day weekend; it is a day to acknowledge the contributions the American labor movement and the hard-working people within it ...

WITH PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER DAN GEROUS. ANOTHER LABOR DAY WEEKEND IS HERE. A TIME SET ASIDE TO HONOR AMERICAN WORKERS. LABOR DAY BECAME A FEDERAL HOLIDAY IN 1894, WHEN PRESIDENT GROVER ...

CHICAGO — Early Labor Day celebrations kicked off in the Pullman neighborhood on Saturday, an area deeply rooted in America’s labor movement. Paradegoers enjoyed candy and freebies as they cheered on ...

For more than a century, Labor Day has honored the achievements of the labor movement and American workers. The day recognizes the many vital contributions that workers have made to our economy and ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first ...

Thursday’s march in Saint Paul commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington expressed the historic interconnections of the labor movement and the civil rights struggle. While other ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

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. This year is the 130th ...