On October 25, 1940, John L. Lewis gave a speech denouncing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and endorsing the Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie. This alienated Lewis from the rest of the.
The United Auto Workers have shown zero signs of breaking in their strike that now has reached over a month. UAW president Shawn Fein sees the companies continuing to concede.
Traditionally, doctors have been a right-wing force in American life. The American Medical Association long led the fight against universal healthcare in this country. But that is beginning to change.
On October 17, 1945, a huge demonstration of workers in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, came together to demand the release of Colonel Juan Perón, recently arrested.
Blogging has been light because I have had people in town for most of the last three weeks. Meanwhile, there's a lot of news on the labor front that has.
On October 10, 1947, African workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway in modern Senegal went on strike with the demand that they be treated equal to French workers. This is a.
A waiter sets up a table in the outdoor dining area on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, in which Gov. Gavin Newsom, who later called it a "bad mistake," attended a.
The Times Magazine had a good profile a couple of weeks ago on a kid maimed in a meatpacking plant. Read it if you haven't. After he finished hosing down.
