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As Labor Day comes this year, US workers and the labor movement face a critical juncture. In some ways, labor is on a roll. Petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ...

Today, the U.S. labor movement is a shadow of its former self. Union membership has declined dramatically since labor’s heyday in the 1950s, when roughly a third of the U.S. workforce was unionized.

The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, by the Central Labor Union. They celebrated again a year later, but this was long before it became a national holiday.

Mr. Loomis is a historian of labor who writes extensively about unions, politics and workers. This is a most unfortunate Labor Day for labor. The labor movement has taken it on the chin repeatedly in ...