by Justin | Aug 10, 2020 | Education, Opinion, Organizing
The United Electrical Workers was once one of America’s mightiest unions. But because many leaders were leftists who challenged corporate power, UE was decimated by McCarthyism. The union managed to survive, though, and UE’s model of militant, democratic...
by Justin | Jul 29, 2020 | Education, Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: July 28, 1869 — The Daughters of St. Crispin was founded. This was the first national women’s labor union in American history and, while short lived, a great example of...
by Justin | Jul 21, 2020 | Education, Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: July 20, 1891. Militia forces guarding a stockade at a mine near Briceville, Tennessee surrendered to miners during the Coal Creek War to keep convict laborers from competing with...
by Justin | Jul 17, 2020 | Education, Labor History
On June 23rd, 1947, the United States Senate—following the House of Representatives—voted 68-25 to override Harry Truman’s veto and enact the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as Taft-Hartley, into law. By doing so, Congress—over the vocal objection...
by Justin | Jul 16, 2020 | Education, Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter This Day in Labor History: July 16, 1931. A white mob murdered the black sharecropper organizer Ralph Gray in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Let’s talk about Black radical rural organizing and the sickening white violence that...
by Justin | Jul 15, 2020 | Education, Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter This Day in Labor History: July 15. 1959. The Steel Strike of 1959 begins. Let’s talk about the fight to preserve the good lives for workers unions had won since World War II. Perhaps the most underrated event in American...
