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A real victory for UNITE-HERE today, as their long and contentious campaign against Hyatt has resulted in a nearly total victory, with the hotel chain agreeing to recognize the union.
We think of the company store as a relic of the Gilded Age, of one-company towns dominating the lives of their workers. We left this behind with the New Deal,.
In a move pleasing to the AFL-CIO, the Obama Administration has taken what I think is an unprecedented step in suspending trade privileges for Bangladesh after the building collapse that.
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of.
On June 21, 1877, ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. The Molly Maguires.
An outstanding collection of old Dutch work safety posters. Of course I liked the timber mill one from 1940 best.
The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn't mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in.
Here's what happens when workplaces don't have unions. An employee of Sewon America, an auto parts supplier for Kia, allegedly died Wednesday, May 29, after working in extreme heat on.