Labor
Workers, AFL-CIO, Democrats open legislative push for $15 minimum wage
February 8, 2019Workers descended on Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers to raise the wage. Democrats liked what they heard; Republicans didn’t.
Read more100 years after Seattle 1919: Is the general strike making a comeback?
February 7, 2019The General Strike, a worker weapon that struck fear into corporate chieftains and their political cronies a century ago is getting a fresh look.
Read moreCPUSA labor group praises workers for shutting down the shutdown
February 6, 2019Communist Party Chair John Bachtell says the mass movement that defeated GOP President Donald Trump’s lockout/shutdown of parts of the federal government – ending the saga of leaving 800,000 workers unpaid for 35 days – was...
Read more“Part of their soul was missing”: Scottish steelworkers lost more than jobs
February 5, 2019Statistics never capture the emotional narratives of deindustrialization.
Read moreThe deported ghosts of Bisbee still haunt Arizona today
January 29, 2019Labor history is not a soap opera, and Arizona’s recent history of deportation shows the ghosts of Bisbee were never exorcized.
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