Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A youngster holds up a pro-union sign at Laborfest. (Photo by Erik Gunn, States Newsroom.) Labor unions exist to negotiate legally ...

Even in the mid-20th century, leaders understood that organized labor was not only a bargaining tool but a pillar of economic credibility. Addressing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ...

Mark Spadafore is president of the Greater Syracuse Labor Council, AFL-CIO. This Labor Day, as we gather to celebrate the working people who form the infrastructure of our communities, I can’t help ...

America’s unions have had much to celebrate on recent Labor Days. Not this year. President Donald Trump is trying to strip collective bargaining rights from approximately one million unionized federal ...