Justices tackle pregnancy discrimination
Does the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which bars firms from discriminating against pregnant workers, mean what it says?
Today in labor history: Puerto Rican labor organizer and feminist Luisa Capetillo born
She lived intensely: she fought for workers causes and the emancipation of women till here death..
Today in labor history: Montgomery teenager refused to yield bus seat
On this day in 1955, African-American Mary Louise Smith refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery Alabama.
Walmart moms demand better pay and protections for women workers
They have a list of changes the company must make to ensure that the women who are key to profits are not living in poverty or putting their health at risk.
Election is biggest union organizing victory in the South in decades
New American Airlines passenger service agents vote big for union representation.
Today in labor history: The murder of Fannie Sellins
William Z. Foster, leader of the great steel strike of 1919, called Sellins one of the best of a whole corps of organizers, with an exceptional belief in the workers.
Today in labor history: 19th amendment, securing right to vote for women, ratified
America's woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements.
Today in labor history: Workers take part in protest against bank
On this day in 1963, in East St. Louis, Illinois, 200 people - 170 of them female, and majority African-American - engaged in a sit-in protest.
Today in labor history: Zeigfield Follies chorus girls form union
It happened on August 12, 1919. The chorus girls in his Ziegfeld Follies formed their own union, the Chorus Equity Association.
Today in labor history: Organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor born
Bloor investigated child labor in glass factories and mines, and worked undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions
