Tag: Labor strikes
Journalist Mary Heaton Vorse Spent Decades on the Front Lines of Labor
Maida Springer Kemp Championed Workers’ Rights on a Global Scale
The American labor movement was built by Black workers, organizers, and activists, from the Rev. Addie L. Wyatt to Lucy Parsons to the washerwomen of Jackson, Miss., who formed the state’s first labor union in 1866 to the warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., fighting to unionize Amazon. Maida Springer Kemp, a union organizer who worked to connect the US and African trade movements, is just one of
The Militant Passion of Emma Tenayuca
Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity
Ah Quon McElrath. (YouTube screenshot of Ah Quon McElrath Project)
The General Strike No One Is Talking About
The Radical Vision of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes
How Workers Can Win in 2022
Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy?
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