A former Department of Labor official under President Obama reflects on the Trump administration's rollback of worker rights.

The battle for workers is slowly but surely progressing with reasonable gains in the number of jobs, wages and benefits.

Don't we all wish it really were?

In honor of Labor Day, here’s a stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people.

The first Gilded Age drove Americans into the streets of our land as they refused to accept that unbridled capitalism was their fate.

Unions fought to win all sorts of benefits for Americans, ranging from widespread employer-sponsored health care to reduced workdays. But this Labor Day, many of these hard-fought benefits are under attack.

Organized labor has been on the decline for years. In this essay, Bill looks at the history of the labor movement, and the importance of its survival.