The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership. The ethos of the Knights was to include anyone involved in production, which helped its ...

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But one of the most effective strategies has been forgotten. A century ago, the labor movement in New York City planned and executed a bluntly practical solution to the problem of housing ...

Trade unions are a crucial part of the resistance movement, and labor activists have faced severe retaliation. Khaing Zar ...

That year, one of his political appointees, Peter Robb, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, brokered a deal with McDonald’s that let it off the hook for alleged labor ...

That discredits the movement, undermining support for labor unions and their critical agenda in Washington. An investigation by the New Jersey Monitor’s Jeff Pillets just found a particularly ...

The power struggle between the political party and the unions has shaped the labour movement over the last century. Old ties look set to loosen further as Labour seek a new path to electoral ...

During the Cold War, that included actively participating in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad. In ...

The contributions include a diverse range of topics by those actively engaged in the labour movement, who tackle a number of thorny issues: from redefining democracy in South Africa, to experiences of ...

The American labor movement has grown significantly since the beginning of the pandemic. Today, more than 250 Starbucks stores are unionized. Workers are demanding better treatment, fair ...

For some sense of what that might look like, we can examine a previous right-wing administration that was a bloodbath for the labor movement: Ronald Reagan’s first term as president. Second ...

The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership. The ethos of the Knights was to include anyone involved in production, which helped its ...