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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 Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME affirmed the First Amendment rights of public employees to opt out of ...

Whenever we celebrate a calendar holiday these days, as we just finished this past weekend with the annual Labor Day celebration, a good many people post memes. Whenever we celebrate a calendar ...

From the viewpoint of American workers, there have been better Labor Days. Donald Trump chose to celebrate this year’s edition by announcing last Thursday his unilateral abrogation of the federal ...

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Some American trade unionists have argued that labor should remain “neutral” on the question of Palestine. In fact, the US labor movement has never been neutral: its union officialdom has a ...

Thousands of union members participated in marches, rallies and picnics on Labor Day throughout the Los Angeles region and across the country. They criticized Trump administration moves that have ...

TOP OF THE HOUR. WE’LL SEE YOU THEN, BLAKE. THANK YOU. YOU BET. WELL, WHO MOVES THE WORLD? MOVES THE WORLD. THIS MORNING, A SYMBOL OF SOLIDARITY FOR LABOR UNIONS. LABOR DAY FESTIVITIES KICKING OFF ...

American said it needs to cut 14,000 union and nonunion workers from the payroll, including 2,100 mechanics at its Tulsa Maintenance & Engineering Center, reduce overall costs by $2 billion a year - ...