Labor

In the mid-1950s, one out of every three people working in private enterprise in the United States was in a union. Today, only 6-7 percent of private…

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, the “grandmother of all agitators,” emerged as an activist in the late 19th century during the country’s rash of mine and…

Members of the Missouri Home Care Union are asking providers of in-home services for the elderly and disabled to raise the wages of the attendants they…

Iconic Rosie the Riveter got a lot of attention during, and after, World War II, but women have always worked.Before the war, women made up approximately…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 17, 2012 - While walking around the campus of Washington University during my studies there, it…

As a progressive Democrat, I have a very different view of health-care reform than that of conservative Republicans. The dividing point is this: Do we, as…

St. Louis Public Schools have paid out as much as a teacher's salary for a full year to teachers who have yet to have their own class this fall, the…

Express Scripts' expansion in north St. Louis County may have made the pharmaceutical supplier the darling of state and regional officials. But it's also…

To succeed, small businesses need fertile ground in which to grow as well as protection against predators and unfair competition. Whether we like it or…

Friday's employment news from the U.S. Department of Labor was sobering: Even though the nation's unemployment rate for July remained unchanged at 9.5…