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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Until the past few decades, labor unions were in constant change, as their history attests. The American labor movement goes back to late 1800s when the industrial revolution took hold, and factory ...

Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Alex Han What the Left Needs From the Post-Biden Democrats From demanding an end to the war on Gaza to ...

Students will learn about the growth and origins of the labor movement, from both a historical and an experiential perspective. 1. Ask students about their own experience with labor unions. What do ...

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 ...

It put out a challenge to the US labor movement: “We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscles ...

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 ...

Neither jail nor exile to Hong Kong has stopped Han Dongfang, a former Tiananmen Square protest leader, from championing ...

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 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 ...

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 ...