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Monday is Labor Day. Will you celebrate unions?

The media does. "Unions are cool again," reports CBS News. They suggest unionization is booming.

"Reporters" practically cheered when a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, became the first Starbucks to unionize. "A big symbolic win for labor," The New York Times called it.

Since then, more than 180 Starbucks voted to unionize,

The Democratic Party is about to find out whether broadly unionizing campaign workers is a smart way to draw top talent, breed happy staffs and embody the party's ideals — or a distraction that will divert donor dollars and weaken candidates and their top strategists.

Driving the news: On Tuesday, months after voluntarily agreeing to recognize it, the Democratic Congressional Campaign

Russian shelling near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine wounded four people Monday, hours after President Biden spoke with the leaders of France, Germany and the UK about the delicate situation.

A White House readout of Biden’s Sunday call with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Schloz and outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said

* Labor unions are organizations that negotiate with employers on behalf of employees.[1]

* The phrase “trade union” is sometimes used as a synonym for “labor union,” but it is also used in a more narrow sense to signify “a labor union of workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.”[2] [3]

* Federal law defines