Last week was the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Fire. I was on the Real News Podcast with Mel Buer to discuss it. She's very good at talking about this stuff succinctly; I am less so. She lays out the history quickly and effectively and...
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On March 30, 1891, the National Union of Textile Workers formed. This early attempt to unite New England textile workers did not succeed, but it was an important moment in.
On March 20, 1945, four leaders of a strike among Black WACs at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, were convicted of disobeying orders and sentenced to hard labor. Privates Anna Morrison, Mary.
On March 18, 1886, anarchists in Liege, Belgium, held an action commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Tapping into great dissatisfaction among the Belgian working class with their work, this small action grew into a much larger set of strikes that is one...
On March 14, 1882, textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts walked off the job. Thirty years later, a much more famous textile strike would take place in that town. That one.
National Labor Relations Board, located at 1099 14th Street, NW, in Washington, D.C. April 16, 2012. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. With all the court victories against.
Harold Meyerson on Trump's outright war on public sector unions: In 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order giving collective-bargaining rights to federal employees, though they were not permitted to strike, nor, as a result of the 2018 Supreme Court Janus decision, are they compelled...
On March 10, 1959, loggers in Newfoundland organizing with the International Woodworkers of America got into a violent clash with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Newfoundland Constabulary. One.
Although overall things are grim for the labor movement, all is not dead yet. Just yesterday, a friend of mine who has a trans daughter who was fired for organizing.
Sean O'Brien really made a great call: The Trump administration is requesting data from all federal agencies about government resources devoted to union matters, potentially setting the stage for a showdown between the White House and federal unions. In a memo issued Thursday to the...
On March 2, 1957, Indiana became the first industrial state in Midwest to pass a right to work law, a major defeat for unions and a major victory for the.
One thing every single Democrat needs to get behind are project labor agreements, which mean that union labor is used for building state projects. This exists in Rhode Island and.