Black History Month Profiles: Rochelle Palache This year, for Black History Month, we’re taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve […]
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Black History Month Profiles: Lucy Wells
Black History Month Profiles: Lucy Wells This year, for Black History Month, we’re taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only the conditions for working people […]
Pathway to Progress: The Charleston Hospital Strike
Pathway to Progress: The Charleston Hospital Strike Wikimedia Commons History has long been portrayed as a series of “great men” taking great action to shape the world we live in. In recent decades, however, social historians have focused more on looking at history “from the bottom up,” studying the vital role that working people played […]
Making History: The Working People Weekly List
Making History: The Working People Weekly List Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. Amazon Workers Could ‘Make History’ with Historic Union Vote in Alabama: “The Retail Wholesale Department Store Union, […]
Trumka Congratulates Doris Harakay on 70 Years of Union Membership
Trumka Congratulates Doris Harakay on 70 Years of Union Membership AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) sent the following letter to Doris Harakay, who, at nearly 90 years of age, has been a member of IUE-CWA Local 775 for 70 years and is both the longest-serving and oldest employee at General Electric (GE) Aviation. The letter: Dear Sister […]