On January 25, 1960 Mitsui Miike coal mine lockout in Japan began, the single biggest labor dispute in the history of Japan. This was also a core battle to see if the left could play a major role in postwar Japan. The forces of order...
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On January 23, 1922, the United Textile Workers led between 70,000 and 85,000 workers out on strike, protesting the continued exploitative reality of work in the apparel factories. This was.
On January 22, 1905, the first Russian Revolution began when the military fired on striking workers in St. Petersburg. The revolution, such as it even was, failed, as most revolutions.
On January 14, 1977, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union lost a union election in Los Angeles after the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the workplace, deporting many of the union activists. This disgusting action helped spur the ILG to move toward working with immigrant...
Few know more about the internal politics of the American labor movement than Harold Meyerson and he is skeptical that it matters much that SEIU has returned to the AFL-CIO,.
Back in 2005, SEIU led a group of unions out of the AFL-CIO to form an alternative federation. Change to Win was supposed to revitalize organizing. It turned out to.
I know someone in passing who worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center for quite some time. Their verdict is that the SPLC is an incredibly toxic workplace, filled with awful management. Well, this is not exactly going to change anyone's mind on this and...
Good news for the economy and for the longshoremen: Dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts reached a tentative labor agreement with employers on Wednesday, averting a strike that could.
Good run-down of the state the labor movement here: Union membership went up 139,000 workers to 14,244,000, but the overall workforce grew more, so the union membership rate dropped from.
This is the grave of Addie Wyatt. Born in 1924 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Wyatt grew up poor. Her family got out of Mississippi in 1930, following the Great Migration to Chicago. That was no easy time either, not as the Great Depression deepened and Black...
A couple of months ago, the Biden administration worked out a temporary deal between the International Longshoremen's Association and the east coast shippers to avoid a strike. But one issue.
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) We will see.