Today in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember
An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.
The ugly racial history of “right to work”
The victory for "right-to-work" (for less) legislation in Michigan has spurred talk of expanding efforts to pass similar laws to weaken unions in other states.
Today in labor history: Eisenhower enforces racial integration in Little Rock
Orval Faubus tried to prevent schools in Little Rock from integrating, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of public schools three years prior.
Today in Labor History: 1934 textile workers strike begins
The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in U.S. labor history at the time, involving as many as 500,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states,.
Today in labor history: Attica prison uprising ends
Today in labor history in 1971, 11 AFSCME-represented prison employees and 33 inmates died after an uprising at Attica Correctional Facility in New York State and its subsequent bloody end with 1,000 police and national guard troops seizing the prison.
Today in labor history: W.E.B. Du Bois dies in Ghana
On this day in 1963 on the eve of the historic March on Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois died in Ghana.
Today in labor history: D.C. restaurants integrate
It was on June 8, 1953 that the tide turned in favor of racial equality, and the prejudicial policies of Washington restaurants were expressly forbidden.
Jobs pipeline offers hope
Youth, the unemployed, elected officials, educators, union leaders, and the business community were all represented at a public hearing.
Amid racism and shootings, labor fights back
A series of shootings in Tulsa's Greenwood area has once again raised concerns over escalating racial tensions.
