Connecticut’s Annual Amistad Awards Rally calls for justice for all
The exciting "Justice for All" People's World Amistad Awards set the tone for the big battles of 2016 in Connecticut.
ILCA honors best in labor journalism at DC gathering
The International Labor Communications Association honored the winners of its annual Labor Media Awards at a luncheon on Dec. 12.
Today in labor history: Lincoln tells advisors about Emancipation Proclamation
In the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation victory came a great momentum that led to the Union's war victory, 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and Reconstruction.
Today in labor history: Warsaw Ghetto uprising ends
Today in labor history, on May 16, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising comes to an end as Nazi soldiers gain control of Warsaw, Poland's Jewish ghetto, blowing up the last remaining synagogue and beginning the mass deportation of the ghetto's remaining dwellers to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Today in labor history: end of the "Vietnam era"
On May 7, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era."
Today in labor history: Seminole Indian resistance came to a head
Conflict carried on until the war ended in August 1842, when the Indians were force-marched to Oklahoma.
Today in labor history: Chicano draft resistance
Muñoz decided - like thousands of other young people n the US - that if drafted, he would refuse to go fight in Vietnam. He was UCLA's first Chicano Student Body President, and started organizing in the Chicano community.
AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers
The nation's prison population exploded from 500,000 to 2.2 million between 1980 and 2011, in the decades since the for-profit business of incarceration was born.
Today in labor history: U.S. tries to overthrow workers' government in Russia
On Sept. 4, 1918, U.S. troops landed at Archangel, in northern Russia, seeking to overthrow the new workers' government that had ousted the czar a year earlier.
