Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. Union membership has been on the decline for some time. The ...

When you’re a small business, you may not have the resources (nor the need) for a full-time staff. You might choose to have one or two employees who work part-time, one or two who work full-time, or, ...

Earlier this month, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data that show a weakening economy, with job creation over the past three months not keeping up with population growth.

Big labor unions have been running the same playbook for years. They muscle their way into a workplace, misrepresent the facts and themselves, make empty promises to workers, and try to silence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Labor, helmed by Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has opposed a lawsuit by several labor-focused nonprofits ...

As we say goodbye to the summer season by celebrating Labor Day, most Americans are eager to recognize the ingenuity and determination of rank-and-file workers. But not union bosses, who hijack the ...

How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School in San Francisco have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc, whose mother taught in that city’s public ...

ATLANTA — A bipartisan group of Georgia state lawmakers filed legislation to authorize the labor department to create a “guest worker” program to bring qualified immigrants in to work in areas that ...

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For more than 140 years, Labor Day has been a time to honor the contributions, achievements and sacrifices of workers in America. But this year, in the wake of growing economic inequality and a ...