A labor union is an association of workers formed to negotiate collectively with an employer. Labor unions in the U.S. have been organizing since 1794 to protect workers' rights. The Wagner Act of ...

Labor unions are associations that aim to protect workers’ rights and advance their interests. They negotiate with employers through a process known as collective bargaining. The result is a union ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent labor negotiations in Modesto highlight an active labor movement despite attempts to disrupt collective bargaining at the ...

The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, by the Central Labor Union. They celebrated again a year later, but this was long before it became a national holiday.

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 ...

Intro; Table of Contents; Director's Foreword, by Whitney W. Donhauser; Introduction: Workers' Movements, Workers' Struggles in New York, by Sarah M. Henry; Workers in the City of Commerce: 1624-1898; ...

David Montgomery and the vitality of labor history. From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work ...

Technical.ly partnered with PublicSource to explore the landscape of work in Pittsburgh — famed for its industriousness and intense union-management conflict and collaboration — as it is ...