Women Leading the Labor Movement: Lori Chavez-DeRemer Meet Lori Chavez-DeRemer Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s public service journey began on the Happy Valley, Oregon Parks...
Past labor union loyalties In response to the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt built a winning coalition for Democrats in the 1930s....
“We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed;...
How did we get here? 2007In response to the severe 2007 financial crisis the UAW accepted a contract that froze wages for...
“America is barreling towards a summer of strikes,” says a headline in the Seattle Times. Union workers in the post-pandemic economy are...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a significant surge in online shopping and home deliveries, resulting in increased pressure on shipping...
Once again, the entertainment industry finds itself embroiled in a relentless clash for creative rights and the just treatment of its professionals....
Mary Kay Henry is the first woman to lead Service Employees International Union. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a union...
Roberta Lynch became Executive Director of AFSCME Council 31 in 2014. AFSCME Council 31 represents more than 90,000 active and retired state,...
As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Frances Perkins, born in 1880, studied the working conditions in a factory. Perkins later remembered...