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The Imperial Food Products Fire MemorialOn September 3, 1991, an explosion and industrial fire in this chicken processing plant in Hamlet North Carolina killed 25 workers and injured 54 others. Despite three previous fires, the plant had never had a safety inspection in its 11 years of operati

Workers, Unions, and the Role of Government October 15-17, 2026 Wayne State University The North American Labor History Conference, held annually since 1979 and now biennial, is holding its forty-seco...

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The West Virginia Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia announced last year that they would merge into one organization.

The 1970s were a turbulent time in American and Philadelphia history. Amidst stagnant wages, inflation, and a new law allowing public sector strikes, Philly school teachers took matters into their own hands fighting the district, mayor, and state. Episodes 44-45 originally aired: March 7 and 20, 2023. Support the show www.laborjawn.com

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register. Cutting-edge techniques have revealed it for the first time.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 was a tragic industrial disaster in New York City that claimed 146 lives, mostly young immigrant women.

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Gov. Spencer Cox inked the first batch of bills from the ongoing 2025 legislative session on Friday, making two of the session's more controversial bills official.

Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements.

On this day in labor history the year was 1983. That was the day that a bitter national strike of Greyhound Workers came to a close. Nearly 13,000 bus drivers, mechanics and clerks had gone on strike. They were members of the Amalgamated Transit Union.

"We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book. In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by gi...