NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island ‒ Dozens of union construction workers are bobbing on boats 15 miles off the coast, killing time playing video games, texting their families and trying to figure out why President Donald Trump has put them out of work.

Laborers Union Local 81 will mark a century of representing some of the hardest workers in Northwest Indiana. “Local Union 81 construction craft Laborers build your roads, bridges, buildings and maintain much of the hot firebrick on the blast furnaces ...

Trucking unions have shaped driver pay, safety, and working conditions for over a century. Strikes remain a powerful tool for drivers to demand fair wages and benefits. Union membership is lower today, but major groups like Teamsters still influence trucking.

But many of the top labor unions told ABC News that they continue to back the strategy taken up by Democrats, breaking with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents hundreds of thousands of federal workers losing out on pay and staring down the threat of layoffs.

Ed Hawthorne has been re-elected as the president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO labor federation — an endorsement that he intends to leverage to keep working on several issues important to unions across the state.

Outside of compensation, the main reasons employees unionize include a desire for better work/life balance, more input into business decisions and more job security, said employers who had experienced unionization over the past two years and who had been ...

Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals stand tall and proud inside the Detroit Institute of Arts, a monument to the power of workers and a city long associated with organized labor. Those murals,