US employers cut 20,000 jobs in April in a relatively stable showing for the US labor market as the jobless rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 5.0 percent, the Labor Department said Friday.

Barack Obama is lining up $1,000 rebates for most American families, wants the IRS to do your taxes for you and is prepared to spend $150 billion remaking the U.S. economy.

HUNTINGTON -- Southwestern District Labor Council, AFL-CIO, will host an event Saturday, May 3, honoring inductees to the Labor Hall of Fame and the winner of the Lafe C. Chafin Lifetime Achievement Award. It will be from 5 to 10:30 p.m. at the Big Sandy

NEW YORK-- As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, CEO pay still chugged to yet more dizzying heights last year, an Associated Press analysis shows.

$20 an hour has a special place in labor history. And history is mostly what it is.