Margo Price, “Pay Gap”: Labor Song of the Month
While Margo Price’s concerns are political through and through, she isn’t hosting any pity parties. Many of her songs rock, countering the sobering.
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Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement
Chad Pearson: Andrew Tillett-Saks has given LAWCHA permission to re-publish this inspiring essay from Truthout. It is an excellent reminder of the long.
- by Andrew Tillet-Saks
- February 15, 2018
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Labor History Today: Week of February 4, 2018
Union City’s Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- February 12, 2018
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Rethinking the American Labor Movement with Liz Faue
Liz Faue’s new book, Rethinking the American Labor Movement, is our field’s newest attempt to reinterpret U.S. Labor History. I asked her a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 8, 2018
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Worker Portraits: Contradictions and Contingency
Paintings and sculptures often represent those with power, not the working class. Yet, a current exhibit at Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery, “The.
- by Sherry Linkon
- January 30, 2018
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Labor History Today: January 14-20, 2018
This week’s labor history: Dr. Martin Luther King and organized labor; John F. Kennedy guarantees federal workers the right to join unions; how.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 25, 2018
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A Special Relationship? A public exhibition about ties between British and American labour from the TUC Library
The Trades Union Congress Library is about to open a new exhibition, Labour’s Special Relationship?, about historic ties between the British and American.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 9, 2018
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Join Us in Celebrating and Sustaining the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum has just finished its third year open in Matewan, and what a year it was. Louis Martin
- by Louis Martin
- December 22, 2017
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Hope in the Heartland: The Struggle for Public-Sector Collective Bargaining in Iowa
In November 2016, Iowa Republicans erased a slim Democratic majority in that state’s Senate, giving the party “trifecta” control of both houses of.
- by Colin Gordon
- November 15, 2017
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GOP Law Fails to Break Iowa’s Largest Public-Sector Unions
One of the most transparent union-busting provisions of Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has failed to significantly reduce the number of workers covered.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 8, 2017