Monthly payroll employment growth has been high post-pandemic, with 205,000 jobs added per month on average in 2023. Recent studies show that increases in net immigration led to significant increases ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. Union membership has been on the decline for some time. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. The U.S. Department of Labor Building in Washington, D.C.

Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline. Starbucks union members ...

A new generation of Republicans is learning to love labor. It’s not clear if labor will love them back. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Noam Scheiber The most surprising ...

A century ago, labor colleges transformed American unions. It’s time to bring them back. In December of 1936, a day into their historic sit-down strike at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, ...