During the Great Depression, the Senate passed — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported — a bill to establish a standard 30-hour workweek. Then it got derailed.

US work culture revolves around employees putting in eight hours a day, five days a week — a schedule immortalized by Dolly Parton in her 1980 song “9 to 5.” ...

May Day commemorates the day the American labor movement was dealt a severe setback when the 1886 eight-hour day movement fell apart due to violence in a series of events known as the Haymarket ...

The truth of the matter, however, is that May Day has deep American roots. It started in 1866 as part of the movement pushing for the eight-hour workday. Back then, as historian Jacob Remes ...

In the 1880s, labor leaders believed that the eight-hour day was one of the only demands that could unite all working people. Today, the four-day week could do the same.

The obvious difference between male and female eight-hour days is that a man with an eight-hour day can make extra money working extra hours, but a woman in an eight-hour-day-for-women state is ...

The answer lies in May Day. After the Haymarket affair of 1886, trade unionists saw that winning the right to an eight-hour day was going to take a massive push from workers everywhere.

Writer-director Nora Fiffer was determined to make the set of her debut feature film, "Another Happy Day," as family-friendly as possible.

May Day — or International Workers' Day — started in America. Here's the full history The holiday commemorates labor activists' decades-long struggle to establishing the eight-hour workday.

Henry Ford's offer of $5 a day for eight hours of work was significant, but unions also fought for decades to set hour and wage rules for all workers.