May is Labor History Month. Bill Hohlfeld, LaborPress’s resident historian and educator, started out as an ironworker. He describes labor history as “literally, our story. It’s the chronicle of our
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Several luxury apartment buildings and hotels recently erected in Manhattan were literally built on a foundation of stolen wages, District Attorney Cyrus Vance charged May 16.
ALBANY, NY — Voters put their trust in educators to help run their local public schools, newly electing at least 29 members of New York State United Teachers to school boards
The U.S. Supreme Court will make a decision in the coming weeks whether or not to undermine the freedom of millions of teachers, nurses and other public workers to have strong
New York, NY – New York is union strong. The quality of the building trades union work comes from their classroom and on-the-job paid training of apprentices. Think of the
WASHINGTON—Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Minnesota’s Mark Dayton have pursued diametrically opposed labor policies since they took office in 2011—and the result, says a study released by the Economic Policy
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