“There really is not a staffing shortage per se,” said National Nurses United president Deborah Burger. “There’s a shortage of nurses willing to put their lives and their license and patients’ lives at risk.”

Just 10.3% of Americans belonged to unions in 2021, and the rate for private-sector employees was 6.1%.

An online geographic tracker from Cornell shows there were dozens of strikes that didn’t make it into national headlines or government data.

Many employers are turning to younger people to fill labor shortages as business reopen. Two teenagers share their work stories.

“COVID has shown Americans the importance of the trucking profession,” said Darrel Harris, president of Yellow Corp.

A number of companies, though concerned about treatment of Uyghurs, appear to have tried to appease widespread consumer anger.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, nearly half of Asian Americans who were unemployed had been out of work for more than six months.

Why is it sometimes cheaper for U.S. consumers to buy goods from China than from local vendors?

Well, not an employee, for starters. But to really understand the word and its implications, we have to look back to 19th-century labor law.

“Dasher,” “tasker,” “driver-partner.” How companies pick worker nicknames that reflect the argument that workers are contractors, not employees.