Forty-four years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, union leaders and community activists gathered at the Dr. King memorial in Washington, DC to honor his activism on behalf of worker rights.
Read moreThese women were all part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the height of the civil rights movement. Today their personal stories are making history in a book called Hands On The Freedom Plow.
Read moreCurrently corporations can basically spend unlimited cash during political campaigns, a move that could undermine the political views of a company’s working-class investors. But now some Americans are speaking out and want a rule that discloses corporate campaign financing.
Read moreDeplorable conditions and low pay forced farm workers to organize in the 1960s as the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). The pioneers of that early farm worker movement were inducted into the Department of Labor’s Hall of Honor on March 26, 2012.
Read morePoliticians, labor leaders and working class advocates gathered in Washington, D.C. to push a congressional legislative agenda which includes passing a pro U.S. manufacturing law.
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