September 1, 2006
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is making the case this Labor Day for a change of power in Congress and for expanding the labor movement. Sweeney heralds new statistics that show earnings for working Americans have fallen at the same time that ...
September 13, 2005
It's been a difficult summer for the labor movement. In late July, three major unions representing 4.6 million workers split from AFL-CIO, the country's largest labor federation, amid complaints that AFL-CIO leaders were focusing too much on ...
August 30, 2005
To examine union members more closely, Gallup aggregated the results from its past five August surveys that asked about membership. The results show some interesting differences among segments of the population.
August 23, 2005
The American public seems to be aware of the challenges U.S. labor unions are facing. For the first time since Gallup began asking this question in 1999, a majority of Americans predict labor unions will be weaker in the United States in the ...
