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Major League Baseball is mired in a lockout, as team owners refuse to budge just weeks before Opening Day. It’s a perfect time to look back at when the players revolted against the owners and started their own league: the 1890 Players’ League.

Unions raise wages and benefits and increase job security. So, the fact that unionization rates are still in decline, despite some recent bright spots in worker militancy, is very bad news.

At 68%, support for unions is at its highest level since 1965. Most Americans think union decline has hurt working people. Can public support buoy union organizing drives?

Honduras now, Brazil soon... the Pink Tide is back! And the worldwide campaign to end violence against women

Occasionally, in politics and social-economic struggles, there occur "moments of rupture," periods of dizzying and dramatic change when hosts of opportunities present themselves and existing arrangements of power are radically altered.

FedEx’s less costly contractor drivers were supposed to give it an edge. But labor shortages are hobbling services.

Workers were locked out Thursday night and had to wait for hours to get their personal belongings. On Friday, they were let in — but an armed security guard was there.