"What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures." S
At the height of its power during the 1930s and 1940s, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was one of the most important and progressive unions in the United States
Today in labor history in 1900 the International Ladies Garment Workers Union was founded in New York City by seven local unions, with a few thousand members between them.
Profile. Mother Jones (1830–1930) was a labor leader and organizer.
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Labor leader John L. Lewis is born in Cleveland, Iowa, to Welsh immigrant parents. Lewis began working as a miner when he was a teenager, worked as a mine workers’ organizer for the American Feder…
On this day in 1894, the American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene Debs, initiated a boycott against the Pullman Palace Car Company. The boycott involved worker's refusing to run trains carrying Pullman cars and supported an ongoing strike of railway workers in response to company wage cuts.
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UPDATE: No agreement was reached between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union. There will be a strike beginning Monday morning. I was walking my bike out of the CTA Blue Line ...
In a letter sent last week, the AFL-CIO, the United Steelworkers union and the United Mine Workers complain that the Occupational Health and Safety…
A protest by 500 women in Kansas that began earlier in the week – organized in support of striking mine workers and against new anti-labor legislation that forced unions into arbitration and outlaw…
In the 1890s, in remote locations such as railroad construction sites, lumber camps, turpentine camps, or coal mines, jobs often existed far from established towns. As a pragmatic solution, the emp…
