Was 2021 the labor movement's year? It certainly felt like it — thousands of workers went on strike this year, at numbers considerably higher than in 2020. But in the context of American labor history ...

This past December, the US Department of Labor (DoL), headed by Democrat Marty Walsh, reported the death toll of workers killed on the job had precipitously increased by 8.9 percent in 2021 to 5,190.

The Labor Department's initial monthly jobs reports and Wall Street's estimates in 2021 weren't as reliable as usual. The U.S. economy added 4.9 million jobs in the first 10 months of the year, ...

There have been few times in recent history when the working man and woman in the U.S. had the leverage in the workplace that existed in 2021. People quit their jobs at a record rate and employers of ...

The total number of staff on McDonald's roster grew during 2021 despite the wider labor shortage. CEO Chris Kempczinski said the firm offered higher wages and better benefits to secure staff. Only 1% ...

The number of workers in unions dropped in 2021 amid strikes and workers no longer settling for low-paying work. The union membership rate, which tracks the percentage of workers who are members of a ...

Twenty-one months into the pandemic, America is no longer struggling with an astronomically high unemployment rate. Instead, it’s big problem remains a shortage of workers. That makes it hard for ...