Employee Participation

Terrance Wise has two jobs in Kansas City one at a burger joint, a second at a pizza restaurant but he says his paychecks aren't enough to buy shoes for his three daughters and insure his 15-year-old car. So he decided to draw attention to his plight: He...

Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.

US service firms expanded last month at the fastest pace since February, fueled by a jump in new orders and stronger business activity.

Companies have all but stopped laying off workers. They just aren't hiring many.

With union membership on the decline, labor leaders are getting more creative and some say more desperate to boost sagging numbers and rebuild their waning clout.

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, a modest increase and the fewest since March. Still, the unemployment rate fell to a 4-year low of 7.4 percent, a hopeful sign in an otherwise lackluster report.