labor history

“Made in Dagenham”: feisty women who know how to fight

January 5, 2011 By Gene Lantz

The best scene in the new British film, "Made in Dagenham," comes when a reporter asks Mrs O'Grady how her band of strikers will be able to cope. "We're women!" she explains pointedly.

CHEERS to Marx, JEERS to negativism!

September 13, 2010 By Gene Lantz

CHEERS to the political foresight of comic Groucho Marx, who anticipated the 2009-10 Republican Congressional delegation with his great song, "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It!"

LaborFest 2010: Art, history and today’s struggles

July 5, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

In the San Francisco Bay Area, July is LaborFest month - a cornucopia of film, video, tours, art, music, theater, panels, workshops and more, delving into the many issues and struggles of today's workers and those...

94 Years after Ludlow Massacre, site now national historic landmark

February 23, 2009

Original source: On April 20, 1914, in Ludlow, Colo., one of the bloodiest chapters in the nation’s labor history was written. Thugs hired by several coal companies and the Colorado militia attacked a peaceful encampment of...

Two Black workers who made history

February 6, 2009 By Tim Wheeler

BALTIMORE — Helen Evans was turning the pages of an album of photos of her father, Joseph P. Henderson, when her eye fell on a picture of him as a Laborers union organizer in Washington, D.C.,...