Jeffrey Sklansky is a member of UIC United Faculty, the labor union representing the bargaining units of Tenure/Tenure-Track and full-time Non-Tenure Track faculty at the University of Illinois ...

The American labor market is reaching a critical turning point that could tighten labor availability in rural industries and slow growth across the U.S. economy. A new quarterly report from CoBank’s ...

DALLAS (AP) — 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. The holiday ...

Faced with Trump and neoliberalism, American unions are embracing one of their oldest, most dangerous tendencies: Sinophobia. Thousands of Teamsters march on the US Capitol on April 12, 2000, in ...

• The latest employment snapshot from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a bleak picture of the current state of the economy under President Donald Trump. • Labor market deterioration: Just 22,000 ...

To mark the Labor Day holiday, The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press Editorial Board presents these excerpts from speeches and proclamations regarding labor and the dignity of work. “We honor the ...

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Colonial America certainly benefited from the fact that early settlers were self-selecting risk-takers willing to cross a dangerous ocean and start life over in the new world. Because they were tough, ...

The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North. This contradiction would shape American ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

A Labor Day sale sign in Walnut Creek, California, on August 25, 2025. As this year’s Labor Day approaches, I remember my late grandmother. She worked her whole life in her and my grandfather’s small ...