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FMCS helps avert strikes by sending mediators to shuttle between union and employer negotiators when talks break down.

Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley signed on to the bill, which was sponsored by Republican Josh Hawley of Missouri.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer won Senate confirmation 67-32, with Democrats split and a few Republicans voting against her for being too pro-union.

President Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, a former Oregon Congresswoman, won’t push a minimum wage increase either.

Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees is hitting workers who fight forest fires and maintain the power grid.

It was the third time since 2021 that a bill to make Montana a “right-to-work” state has failed in the state legislature.

Federal workers — including wildfire fighters — face mass firings, hiring freezes, and return-to-office rules under new executive orders.

Biden appointee Jennifer Abruzzo reformed NLRB. Now she's gone, along with NLRB Board member Gwynne Wilcox.

No date has been set yet for a Senate confirmation hearing.

So far, President Trump has left in place the Biden order requiring PLAs on federal construction projects.

Leaders of the International Longshore Association say support from president-elect Donald Trump made the difference.

One in every 435 people living in the United States is homeless. And that's an 18.1% increase over the previous year.

Jimmy Carter's post-presidency work earned wide admiration, but his policies in office on labor were disastrous.

This most recent Congress was the least productive since before the Civil War — just 158 bills in two years.

Workers lost a champion on the board that interprets labor law as Senate Republicans reject NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran.

Oregon’s pro-labor Republican lost her seat in the House. Now she’ll go to the Senate for a cabinet confirmation hearing.

Wisconsin's Act 10, which stripped public sector workers of union rights, was the subject of nationwide union protests when it passed in 2011.

Workers rights will once again be on the ballot around the country this election as voters in five states decide on the minimum wage.

It received 3,286 union election petitions in the 2024 federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 … and 21,292 unfair labor practice charges.

The national AFL-CIO will spend over $1 million on digital and streaming ads in seven “battleground” states to help elect Kamala Harris.