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This Day in Labor History: May 6, 1882. President Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act. This, sadly, is the first major piece of national legislation that came out of the

This Day in Labor History: April 30, 1894. Coxey’s Army, a rag-tag group of unemployed Americans, marched into Washington, D.C., demanding federal jobs for the unemployed. The cops had Coxey

This Day in Labor History: April 28, 1971. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened its doors. Let's talk about the fight for workplace safety and how OSHA has been

Turns out there's a lot of people on the left out there who really, really, really want to believe heroic myths about past radicals and have no interest in actual

Few things on the Amazon vote:1) When was the last time (ever?) that the Times had a live vote counter on a union election? 2) Amazon is challenging hundreds of

This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first Black Code, attempting to reinstitute slavery in all but name. Let's talk about how far southern whites would

This Day in Labor History: November 9, 1935. The Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) was created. Let's talk about how the labor movement finally moved

This Day in Labor History: November 8, 1970. Congress approved the Reorganization Acts Amendment that laid the groundwork for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Let's talk about the

This Day in Labor History: October 30, 1837. Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and

This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1924. The first of five workers died in less than a week at Standard Oil’s New Jersey Bayway TEL works from lead exposure

This Day in Labor History: October 23, 1976. On October 23, 1976, International Woodworkers of America Local 3-101 in Everett, Washington had its monthly union meeting. Big deal? No! This

This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1898. A racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in Virden, Illinois. Let's talk about how employers could so easily manipulate racism to promote