Events (Old)

Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference, April 15-16, Iowa City

The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference is organized by graduate students in labor history from different university campuses in the Midwest. The conference has been meeting annually each spring since the mid-1990s, hosted each year by participating graduate students

Action Alerts (Old)

A Time to Defend Labor and the Public Sector

Thanks to the leadership that workers in Wisconsin and other states took in the Spring of 2011, Americans seized the opportunity to change the debate about the fiscal crisis in the states, its origins, and the way it was being

Action Alerts (Old)

Campus Living Wage and Anti-Sweat Shop Campaigns

Students at various universities across the country are voicing their concerns over university apparel produced in sweat shops, over living wages for university employees and contractors, and for student and worker rights.