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On November 13, 1909, at the Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois, a coal car filled with hay for the mules who worked underground rolled down a track. Earlier that week,.
Another sign that most Democratic politicians simply don't care about organized labor outside of writing checks and getting on votes on election day. Illinois governor Pat Quinn has named Paul.
Great news. I recently linked to the Center on Public Integrity's excellent series on how coal miners are denied black lung benefits by Johns Hopkins doctors who always rule in.
Reuters has an interesting piece on how Volkswagen's previous attempt to operate a union factory in the U.S. failed and how this relates to its attempts to institute a German-like.
The Center for Public Integrity is running a really great series about how coal miners get black lung from decades in the mines and then face a wall of denial.
Gawker has acquired a 20-minute tape of a Georgia trucking company trying to convince workers not to join a union. This is a window into the day-to-day employer intimidation of.
On October 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization,.
What a surprise that billionaire sports owners would steal from their poorest employees: Two Major League Baseball clubs–the San Francisco Giants and Miami Marlins—are under investigation by the U.S. Department.