The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership. The ethos of the Knights was to include anyone involved in production, which helped its ...
A longstanding debate within the labor movement has been how to balance union organizing campaigns against electing friendly politicians. The calculus is not a simple one. Union organizing is ...
This kind of shop-floor organizing has a long history within the labor movement, and was once so common it was thoroughly unremarkable; if you were a young worker with socialist or progressive ...
(Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images) Amid this genocidal fervor, some in the U.S. labor movement courageously spoke out to urge an end to the U.S.-sponsored slaughter.
which draw on the labor movement’s history of collectively withholding labor to apply pressure. Simultaneously, the labor movement has seen one of its most significant upsurges in decades with ...