Labor Day

Trump cancels pay raise federal workers were due in January

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

The president said he was axing a 2.1 percent across-the-board raise for most workers as well as locality pay increases averaging 25.7 percent and costing $25 billion.

Has Trump been a friend to workers or just good for business?

By PBS News Hour

President Trump ran on a platform of job creation and drew support from many blue-collar workers concerned about employment and stagnant wages. So how is the president doing in keeping his promise to revitalize jobs in America? William Brangham talks…

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Column: The labor movement as we know it is dying. Here’s how it can survive

By David Rolf

Collective bargaining isn't working. It's time for the labor movement to innovate and adopt new models.

A poet’s ode to the meaning of work

By Mary Jo Brooks

Philip Levine wrote 20 collections of verse, won a Pulitzer Prize and served as Poet Laureate of the United States. Yet he always considered his main mission was to document and honor the lives of working-class people.

Column: 8 ways employees can thrive while labor unions decline

By Douglas P. McCormick

While collective bargaining used to produce large gains for workers, entrepreneurship is now a worker’s most powerful tool for long-term career success and financial prosperity.

The economy is steadily improving, but wages aren’t. Could unions be the answer?

By Kristen Doerer

The U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in August, but wages barely increased.

Obama to require paid sick leave for federal contractor employees

By Josh Lederman, Associated Press

Showing solidarity with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.

What we’ve been reading this summer

By Ariel Min

As Labor Day winds to an end and the rigors of school and work encroach upon us, we here at the PBS NewsHour thought it would be nice to share some of the books that we've been reading this summer.

The high cost of labor efficiency — and the ‘Good Jobs’ alternative

By Zeynep Ton

What do Costco, Trader Joe's, QuickTrip and Spanish supermarket Mercadona have in common? They treat labor as assets, says Zeynep Ton, author of "The Good Jobs Strategy," and therefore, avoid even bigger costs than labor.

The Labor Day lessons of Market Basket

By Christopher Mackin

On Labor Day, worker ownership adviser Christopher Mackin reflects on the unprecedented solidarity between Market Basket workers, managers and customers and looks forward to where the company is headed after the reinstatement of beloved CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.