Learn about labor unions' roles in collective bargaining, their history in the U.S., and examples like the NEA, focusing on worker representation and improving conditions.

This year’s “shunto” spring labor-management negotiations is now in full swing with labor unions expected to make high-level pay demands, as they did last year, as prices continue to rise.

Samsung Electronics Co and its largest labor union are to resume negotiations on Monday to avert a strike that the nation’s prime minister warned could wreak havoc on the economy. Management and the union representatives at the world’s biggest memory chipmaker are to meet for the talks on wages and compensation,

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has begun delaying and denying union requests for arbitrators to hear grievance cases, a move that has shocked longtime experts.

The U.S. Department of Labor has released a new tool to help union members and the public track how $11 billion in union dues are spent, including political activities.