Most independent contractors want the flexibility they lose when they become direct employees. The Labor Department published ...

Gig companies would have an easier time classifying workers as independent contractors under a new US Department of Labor ...

Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline. Starbucks union members ...

California just became the second state to allow drivers at ride-hailing companies to unionize. AFL-CIO labor union Greyhound Bus Drivers joined Station employees on picket line outside Greyhound ...

Discover what discouraged workers are, the causes behind their unemployment, and their effect on labor statistics, helping you understand hidden workforce challenges.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a Labor Day rally at the S.C. State House, people marched to the downtown U.S. Post Office to show support for postal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there.

For the last 250 years, our blue-collar men and women have laid the foundations of our country. They’ve paved roads, built bridges and raised the skyscrapers that shape our landscape. Their tireless ...