I am currently researching Unions and Organized labor for an independent study class. While I am sure simple Google searches can turn up a number of different titles, I am very wary of bias. Would you kindly recommend some books, papers, or journals dealing with Organized Labor in the United States of America? Thank you.
Check out the work of David Roediger. Also Philip Foner's work is classic. More recent is Philip Dray. What aspects are you looking at?
Are you looking for works that are an overview of the history of Unions which analyses sources to paint a picture, or would you like primary sources - articles etc. written by people involved in the Union movement at periods in history?
Here's a handful that have made it into my notes, coming at the topic from a more socio-cultural and political-economy angle (I'm interested in workers as consumers):
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal : Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, Second Edition (Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New York: New Press, 2010).
Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
George Lipsitz, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).
Lawrence B Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997).
I'll do a quick search and see if I can find a 'state of the field' essay for labor studies that's fairly recent and might guide you toward more cannonical works within that subfield of history itself. (Which is kinda dying in favor of more integrative histories of capitalism, btw.)
IMMEDIATE EDIT: also, check out the stuff written by Joseph McCartin - incl. his 2013 Collision Course which is very under-grad and public reader friendly. His interpretation of labor history runs counter to Cowie's hypotheses in several interesting ways, so there's some nice counter-point to think with there . . .