worker rights
Triangle fire: then and now
March 24, 2011While walking through the Evergreen Cemetery recently, located in Ridgewood Brooklyn, I came across a section dedicated to eight unidentified young women who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March 25, 1911.
Read moreLabor stalwart Irene Hull dies at 98
March 24, 2011Irene Hull, a beloved "tiny dynamo" fighter for trade union rights, world peace, equality, and socialism died on the first day of spring, March 20 in Seattle.
Read moreUAW special convention: “Fight for every worker in America”
March 23, 2011DETROIT - Addressing 1,200 union activists, United Auto Workers President Bob King called for a return to the social consciousness of the union's founders.
Read moreThere were no outsiders in Madison
March 22, 2011America called and they came. And it was immediate. Wave after wave of concerned citizens evolved into a tsunami of humanity that descended upon Madison, Wisconsin. As workers, students and everyday citizens with no political bent...
Read moreThis is what a workers’ uprising looks like
March 22, 2011Anyone who thinks the upsurge by workers all across America is not of historic proportions hasn't been paying attention.
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