The history of organized labor is long and brutal. The history of May Day, the holiday honoring the organized labor movement ...

May Day is known to some as a spring holiday within the pagan tradition, one associated with rebirth, maypole dances and a ...

International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, has grown to have an immigrant and workers' rights focus in Los Angeles.

Labor Day became a U.S. federal holiday in 1894, but by that time thirty states already officially celebrated the holiday. Labor Day was created by members of the labor movement, who organized ...

While Latin America, Europe and Asia celebrated International Workers' Day, in the United States May Day was once again just ...

May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the ...

Labor Day might mark the unofficial end of summer, but it's anything but a downer! It's the perfect excuse to throw one last ...

Instead, the U.S. set up Sept. 1 as Labor Day in 1894. There have been efforts to counter the movement locally, too. It’s been remarketed as Loyalty Day in the past, as well as Law Day.

Taksim square, considered a powerful symbol of labor rights and protest culture, is also an ideological battleground among governments that have taken leadership in the country over the decades.

In 1894 (in the wake of another strike that President Grover Cleveland broke using the Army), Congress passed a bill establishing Labor Day, not May Day, as a national holiday. Cleveland signed ...

In the best tradition of May Day, labor and community networks across the country are activating existing coalitions and ...