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On May 21, 1968, the Poor People's Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. Attempting to go on after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the system of franchising used by fast food companies, charging that it is designed to hold.
Above: Strikers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1949 While right-wing states are freaking out about the new AP standards (never mind that this year's AP US History DBQ was on the rise.
The Los Angeles City Council voting 14-1 to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour is a very big deal. Doing this city by city or state by.
On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority as a centerpiece to his New Deal. The TVA would have both short and long-term impacts on.
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might.
Labor has made some positive gains recently in organizing the working-class employees of the Silicon Valley. But what's really interesting here is the aggressive attitude of labor: The state's labor.
Housing for the workers building the NYU campus at Abu Dhabi NYU has come under significant criticism for the terrible conditions of the workers building it's Abu Dhabi campus. Here.