afl-cio
The labor movement is deeply divided. You'd like to think that every labor union would be behind a larger progressive effort to create social and economic democracy. But you would.
On September 19, 1981, the AFL-CIO held Solidarity Day in Washington, D.C. This event was organized labor's strongest reaction to the Reagan administration and although largely forgotten about today, deserves.
On October 23, 1995, John Sweeney won the election to become president of the AFL-CIO. This ground shifting event began the process of moving the federation away from its staid.
Working on my next book today, I stumbled across this New York Times article from 1979 on the fresh new look Lane Kirkland was going to.
The AFL-CIO has started its own online magazine based at Medium. Titled In Our Hands, it hopes to feature a few stories of working Americans at a good-looking website. Is.
I have a piece up at Labor Online about the difficulties of meaningful coalition building between the AFL-CIO and other progressive organizations. An excerpt: But of course the American union.