WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Unions are using the election of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as a springboard to reorganize and renew the labor movement, leaders say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. businesses are gearing up to do battle with worker groups in a political fight over rules governing how unions can be formed and joined, analysts said.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis, California's first female Hispanic state senator, was named Friday as President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Labor Department.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Some of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's liberal supporters say they're disappointed with the political pedigrees of his Cabinet choices.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Union leaders say they're disappointed U.S. President-elect Barack Obama didn't include a new secretary of Labor as part of his core economic team this week.
DETROIT, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was in Detroit Monday courting support from unions during their traditional Labor Day rally.
CHICAGO, June 26 (UPI) -- Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama Thursday received the endorsement of the AFL-CIO.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The Service Employees International Union, one of the largest U.S. labor unions, Friday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president of the United States.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Most U.S. adults, including a majority of labor union households, have a low opinion of labor unions, a survey has found.
NEW YORK, June 2 (UPI) -- U.S. unit labor costs increased 3.3 percent during the first quarter of 2005, higher than expected, the Labor Department said Thursday.
MIAMI, March 10 (UPI) -- The AFL-CIO, meeting in south Florida, said Wednesday it will mount a major offensive to relax labor laws to make it easier to organize new unions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday it would partner with the Indian government on a $40 million effort against exploitive child labor.
CHICAGO, March 17 (UPI) -- United Airlines Monday asked a bankruptcy judge to toss out agreements with its labor unions as negotiations to reduce the company's labor costs continued. United has a May 1 deadline for reducing its labor costs by $2.56 billion a year through 2009 to m
