The decline of union coverage is responsible for about 35 percent of the drop in the share of the workforce that falls within the middle class, the researchers found.

Arbitration talks are expected to resume later this week.

The legal foundations of thousands of public-sector bargaining agreements could soon disappear.

In a case with sweeping implications for public employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear a case challenging the right of California's largest teachers union's to collect fees from non-member teachers. By Howard Mintz.

An Oregon medical center’s plan to increase efficiency by outsourcing doctors drove a group of its hospitalists to fight back by banding together. By Noam Scheiber.

Strippers in Las Vegas and elsewhere are pushing back against rules that make it harder for them to earn a living or file claims for sexual harassment. By Madison Mainwaring. (Dec. 17)

When the media praises the heroically frugal, there’s an ugly subtext: that our financial woes are exclusively our faults. By Helaine Olen. (Dec. 16)

How South Africa's beverages industry changed the labour game. By Richard Poplak, Diana Neille, Sumeya Gasa and Shaun Swingler.

Uber drivers are getting creative in their fight for basic workplace rights. By Steven Greenhouse.

A writer becomes a carrier for the United States Postal Service out of a long-held love for the mail. What she discovers are screams, threats, lies, labor violations, and dog attacks. By Jess Stoner.

The retail giant is always watching.

As the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court opens this autumn, looming on the docket is Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case designed to decimate public-sector unions. While it may not come to that—even the most knowledgeable Court-watchers are unsure how the justices will rule—the stakes are high. A decision is expected before the term ends in June.

The rapid growth of labor laws that have enabled public-sector collective bargaining have not led to excessive public-sector pay; for example, employees covered by the right to strike earn about 2 percent to 5 percent more than those without it.

If the Supreme Court in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association renders agency-shop clauses unenforceable for public employees, it will reduce public-employee compensation by increasing the pay penalty for working in state and local government.

Union members are not only more likely to vote for progressive policies, they're more likely to vote.

As of 2014, 11 percent of all American workers—or 14.6 million people—were in a union. By sector, that’s 6.6 percent unionization for workers in private firms and 35.7 percent unionization for those in government and other public services. Just nine states have unionization rates of 15 percent or greater, down from 28 (and the District of Columbia) in 1984. In whole regions of the country, and the South in particular, unions have nearly vanished.

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

In every strip club I’ve worked in, it’s the same: We’re exploited. By Antonia Crane.

Millions of workers now go it alone—who will provide them with basic labor protections? By Nancy Cook.

Walmart's "associates" have to watch this video about the menace of unions.