On January 17, 1915, the radical Lucy Parsons led an unemployed march of 10,000 workers in Chicago. Suppressed by the police, the size of the march impressed the city’s more establishment reform
This has to be the greatest advance in strikes since the sit-down. Memo to teachers preparing to join the picket lines on Thursday: There will be tacos. Some 34,000 L.A. public school teachers are sch
David Dayen makes a really good point here. House Democrats had big plans for opening the 116th Congress, with showy votes on cracking down on government corruption and protecting pre-existing conditi
I was lucky enough to be interviewed for this Steven Greenhouse overview of the year in strikes. You can find my own quotes in there if you want, but the whole piece is outstanding. Here’s the i
On December 30, 1828, 400 of Dover, New Hampshire’s approximately 800 “mill girls,” women working in the new textile plants, walked off the job in one of the nation’s first str
When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1938, employers were apoplectic. The minimum wage would destroy America! It will lead to layoffs! It will undermine the freedom of
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 be wrong. Betw
It’s clear now that the real labor story of the 2010s is the rise of teachers’ unions taking direct action to fight for themselves, the children they teach, and the broader community. Begi