More than 125 years after President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making Labor Day a national holiday, American workers face a rather different set of challenges than the laborers of the late 19th century, who scratched out a living by working at least 12 hours a day in unsafe conditions.

As another Labor Day approaches, private-sector union membership remains low compared to its historic high reached during the quarter-century after World War II.

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