See this recording of the 2025 show at Wayne State

Virtual screening followed by live Q&A with Amy Goodman and directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin.

Workers’ lives belong on stage—and a brand-new directory on the LHF website spotlights theater organizations and performance groups bringing stories of work, unions, labor history and workplace justice to audiences. Help us grow the directory! We welcome active professional, community, student

1898: Company guards kill at least eight miners who are attempting to stop scabs in Virden, Il.1902: 14 miners are killed and 22 wounded by scabherders in Pana, Il.1933: 2,000 workers demanding union recognition close down dress manufacturing in Los Angeles CA.Want to discover

Labor History Today: Solidarity Has A Long MemorySolidarity Has a Long MemoryOn Labor History Today: A Virginia road and a century-old song reveal how workers carry solidarity across generations.Anthony Dominiczak of the Labor Memory Project takes us along Gravel Lick Road in Castlew

“In the labor movement we fight fear with passion. We fight hate with love. We fight division with unity.”      - International Union of Painters and Allied Trades President Jimmy Williams on October 3rd, 2026 at the Power To The People Fest in Columbia MD

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Another alarm bell went off on the state of U.S.-based film and television production with the release of an extensive report commissioned by several of the Hollywood unions that illustrates what industry insiders have feared for some time: After a quarter century of rapid transformation and exter

Alexander Laidlaw's Goodly NewsSong by Leith Kahl - AKA Desert Rat - about the 1916 West Coast port strike, the killing of strikers Alexander Laidlaw and James Costello, and the erection of a plaque honoring the strike on Tacoma WA’s 11th St. Bridge.Hear Kahl discuss “The S

Join us at the Union Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Illinois as we celebrate the lives of Mother Jones, union miners, and their families.

Employees of the Barack Obama Foundation and Presidential Center have taken the first steps toward forming their union withAFSCME Council 31 in Illinois. A letter from 68 employees was delivered to the full workforce on Wednesday announcing the union organizing effort. “We

Minneapolis College of Art and Design students support the school’s faculty union as they rally for a “Human Centered Arts Education.” (Photo: Isabela Escalona / Workday Magazine)Got a creative picket sign? Email us: info@laborheritage.orgWant picket signs like this one sent to your

“We’re going to work together, we’re going to fight together and we’re to win together in November!”IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social joined the @dropkickmurphys.com on stage at the Power to the People Festival to talk about the power of our solidarity. America’s unions are in this figh

Minnesota Opera Orchestra musicians—who are represented by the Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 30-73—have unanimously voted to approve a strike authorization after management proposed a second consecutive contract that contained no wage increases.Dur

From Labor Notes“Palestinian cultural workers living through apartheid, occupation, and genocide are calling for solidarity from their counterparts abroad.“Not every artist has as large a platform as rapper Macklemore, children’s TV star Miss Rachel, or country singer Zach Bryan—who

Visit the Jefferson Avenue Mission in St. Louis for a theatrical celebration of the strength of Missouri’s working class.

The Mother Jones MuseumMt. Olive, ILThe Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive honors the contributions of Mother Jones, the development of the Union Miners Cemetery, the United Mine Workers of America, the Progressive Miners and the Women’s Auxiliary, and the impact of coal-mining, organized la

In an update to a story we've previously reported on, workers at the Detroit Historical Society won their union with AFSCME Michigan, joining other Detroit cultural workers who are fighting for a stronger voice to create better institutions for both employees and the communit

More Than a Cog on the Assembly Line On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour Union Hall Arts gives workers time to create, while historian Tina Wei explores workplace fatigue and the human labor behind AI. Plus, Joe Hill’s enduring songs, Detroit’s “gentle anarchist” Joseph Labadie a

Visit the Jefferson Avenue Mission in St. Louis for a theatrical celebration of the strength of Missouri’s working class.

The Rochester Film Series presents Stephan Komandarev

More unions are forming at Wizards of the Coast. United Wizards of the Coast - Communications Workers of America announced on October 6th that workers on the Dungeons & Dragons and D&D Beyond teams and at Studio X, which works on tabletop Magic: The Gathering and Duel Masters, are

1888: United Hebrew Trades is organized in New York by shirtmaker Morris Hillquit and others.1997: Retail stock brokerage Smith Barney reaches a tentative sexual harassment settlement with a group of female employees. The settlement was never finalized: a U.S. District Court Judge refused

On October 5th the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s appeal of a ruling requiring the company to pay back its workers — members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) — for cuts to pay, illegally implemented increases in health care costs, and

In an update to a story we’ve previously reported on,  Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art have narrowly averted full-blown strike action this week as news of an 11th-hour contract ratification came in on Sunday night, October 4. The Whitney’s union was set to picket out

American Mural Project and Real Art Ways proudly present a screening of 9 TO 5, the 1980 smash about three women struggling for respect and equity in a toxic workplace dominated by a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.”

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Marian J. Matyn from the Clarke Historical Library joins the Brown Bag series at MSU. Time and location TBA.

Forgotten: Murder at the Rouge Plant was a finalist in the MotorCities National Heritage Area’s 2026 Award of Excellence in Education/Interpretation, recognizing the Michigan Labor History Society’s use of jazz opera to bring an overlooked chapter of labor history to life. The awards were p

Workers at Rochester’s George Eastman Museum announced Saturday that both professional and non-professional employees voted to unionize with Workers United. Sources tell LHF that museum management sent an email accepting the results. “We are one union, the union is US!” organizers celebrated. Next u

Join Bill Barry, retired CCBC professor and former director of Labor Studies, for a labor history lecture exploring McCarthyism, the Red Scare and their impact on workers in Baltimore County.