The United States is home to seventeen million military veterans. About 1.3 million of them currently work in union jobs, ...
They might not get as much praise and recognition, but Black women have served as the driving force and the foundation of many of the most transformative and important movements. It’s a cycle that ...
Labor Day 2022 seemed to me “the most promising moment for unions in several decades.” That year, young workers were trying to organize new unions from coast to coast, and labor unions enjoyed over 70 ...
After spending more than 25 combined years promoting the trade union movement and protecting the right to organize in the United States and around the world, we see the report “And Still I Rise: Black ...
Changing demographics and common interests have led unions to take a more prominent role in immigrant workforces and communities. This kind of solidarity would have been less common a generation ago, ...
Democrats took a stab at the policy during last year’s legislative session and worked for months to find a compromise between ...
Pensions are not considered the sexiest corner of the labor movement. But they are one of the most important. The final frontier of thought about the labor movement’s pension money is the realization ...
From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist ...
Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day as ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. is widely celebrated for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, but a new exhibit in Catherwood Library seeks to shed light on his lesser-known role in the history of ...