Black women have played a crucial yet, often overlooked role in the labor union movement, fighting for both workers’ rights and racial justice. Despite facing discrimination from both employers and ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. is widely celebrated for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, but a new exhibit in Catherwood Library seeks to shed light on his lesser-known role in the history of ...

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead.

While the proponents of “abundance” may vary in their disposition toward unions, many of the organizations bankrolling the movement seek to roll back the power of organized labor. Machinists Union ...

If you’ve spent any time around the labor movement, you’ve probably heard the saying: “an injury to one is an injury to all.” This is a core principle of our movement, not just because we care for our ...

To find Ai-jen Poo more than a decade ago, people would come to the city’s Union Square Park. There, at a birthplace of labor activism, the recent Columbia University graduate would hand out fliers ...

With the Wagner Act, the US finally came to see the success of black unions like the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, out of which leaders like A. Philip Randolph would rise to advance the ...

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This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first ...

A lesser known figure in the early 1900s labor rights movement, Lucy Parsons made waves. Reset speaks with a scholar about the significance of her life and work. As Thanksgiving nears, we get ideas ...

This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable on worker power under Trump, co-published by The American Prospect. I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there.