Workers need the chance to decide for themselves -- without being spied on, threatened, or fired -- whether to join a union. The Employee Free Choice Act would give them that chance.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
This Labor Day, let's recommit ourselves to helping workers organize and fight for their rights. Let's work together to win meaningful reforms that ensure access to quality, affordable health care.
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Ugly as the recent 0.3 percentage point jump in the headline unemployment number is, a look behind that number is uglier still.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The results are in -- the Labor Department said that 216,000 were laid off in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million.
Will Durst | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy
There are no fireworks to watch or ugly birds to cook or chocolate covered bunnies to steal marshmallows from. Just one Monday off for all those ordinary guys and gals trying to make ends meet.
Thomas Kochan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Workers have good reasons to feel left out of stimulus efforts to date. Nearly 20 percent of the workforce is unemployed, unable to find a full time job, or has given up on looking for one.
Jim Gibbons | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Many local Goodwills around the country are placing people in employment opportunities in diverse industries such as technology, healthcare, food services, banking, computer programming and manufacturing.
Anna Burger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
With Labor Day rapidly approaching and the Congressional recess coming to an end, we are on the verge of witnessing some of the most critical debates in our nation's history, and the unions will be on the front lines.
Kate Kelly | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Alice Hamilton was the energy behind investigating workplace health hazards. She should be honored for drawing attention to the daily dangers to which workers are exposed.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
Verizon and a British Lord are joining forces to deny climate change and fight unions.
One For The Table | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
I'm from the South. But I never felt like I was home until I moved to New York City, so it takes a lot for me to go back below the Mason-Dixon. Still, every Memorial Day weekend I return.
Reuters | Richard Valdmanis | Posted 09.27.2009 | Style
Americans will cut their Labor Day holiday travel plans dramatically this year to save money in a tough economy and to keep their children near home a...
Richard Laermer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business
Since we are used to doing very little during this time of year, I guess it's time to relearn how to cope with The August Midsummer Blues. Here's what to do in the last weeks of August in 2009.
Kate Clinton | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
We've phased through several theme weekends on our way to Labor Day. This week there's an unsettling themelessness in town and despite my vague vertigo, I am enjoying the lull.
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living
Perhaps she, too, needed a respite, a hiatus, a different life -- and the summer gave her a good excuse.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
In case we didn't know the holiday season was fast approaching... a spate of CD box sets, hits compilations and expanded, Deluxe Editions of some of our favorite albums are usually tell-tale sign.
Leslie Hatfield | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green
One group is moving ahead with a campaign to pressure corporations to pay a little more (a penny a pound, to be exact) for tomatoes. And they're winning.
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living
We hope that many of you had the opportunity to take a break from work on Labor Day and celebrate the end of summer by relaxing with friends and famil...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
One of the most important problems that our economy has faced for the last 30 years has been stagnating real wages.
Rep. George Miller | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Our nation's workers, battered by unfair global competition, stagnant wages, declining benefits, and poor employer compliance with labor laws, deserve a Department of Labor that lives up to its name.
Elana Levin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Bill O'Reilly talks about "The War on Christmas," and while that concept has been widely lambasted I'm here today to sound a different alarm -- that there is truly a War on Labor Day.
Art Levine | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Today, workers and labor advocates should remind the public -- and progressives -- of the threat McCain's free-market policies pose to working families and labor rights.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living
This year Labor Day and Women's Equality Day bookend the week: a timely conjunction, since tension over what properly constitutes women's work is the crux of much of our current public discourse.
Thomas Kochan | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Labor delegates are leaving the Democratic Convention with a clear message and a mandate, energized by the inspiring words of Barack Obama that "We ca...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Labor Day traditionally marks the start of the election season. This year is certainly no different, but the stakes are much higher than they've been in a long time.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business