May 1 is International Workers' Day, but it's not a federal holiday. How are Oklahomans recognizing the date?

If you’re looking for a good read to mark the occasion, Kim Kelly’s Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor is a perfect place to start. Labor Day isn’t just about barbecues and a ...

Rutgers University professor and labor historian Francis Ryan says District Council 33's tentative agreement with the City of Philadelphia is probably the best the union could get. Canada has a ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

“We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW” by Melvyn Dubofsky, Quadrangle Books, Chicago, 1969; 484 pages plus 72 pages of footnotes and index; $12.50 This book is an ample, very readable, and ...

Liz Crawford, a Jersey native, is thrilled to join CBS News Philadelphia, returning to her roots to share community stories and hold the powerful accountable. Liz brings a passion for storytelling and ...

Worst of all, despite its impressive reach in radical circles, Labor and Monopoly Capital has been ignored by mainstream historians of capitalism and dismissed by many sociologists of labor. (With ...

Historians can’t remember the last time hotel workers went on strike in Texas. That means the ongoing strike at the downtown Hilton Americas-Houston, where workers walked out on Labor Day to push for ...

Union organizing is spreading across the city, reinforcing the city’s long-standing reputation as a labor stronghold.

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