On September 19, 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company shut down its operations, laying off approximately 4100 workers. This event, which became known as Black Monday, was emblematic of.
Given how little coverage organized labor in the United States receives in this country, it's hardly surprising than when talking about international events, the news media really ignores labor. But.
OSHA just faces a hard row to hoe in implementing silica standards or anything else. The reality is that OSHA has been battered between the political winds ever since its.
Scott Walker is desperate. He seems to think that his path to the nomination is highlighting his war on unions since that's what made him famous. So his proposals: The.
At RI Future, I reviewed Cedric de Leon's new book The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago. An excerpt. Scholars are beginning to rethink the Gilded.
Who else is not at all shocked that the children of union families have higher social mobility as adults? Why, it's almost like growing up in an economically stable household.
Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the.
Last week, I wrote about the ATI lockout of their union mills. Wanted to highlight this issue once again. The United Steelworkers held a big rally in Pittsburgh yesterday to.
