On this day in Labor History the year was 1975.  That was the day the AFL-CIO held a “Jobs Now” rally in Washington, D.C. A painful recession had pushed unemployment in United States to nine percent. 

On this day in Labor History the year was 1978. That was the day of an important victory for any woman in the United States with a pension. The Supreme Court handed down its decision in a case known a

On this day in Labor History the year was 1999.  A headline from the Los Angeles Times declared, “Dock Crews to Halt Work in Support of Death Row Inmate.”  Up and down the west coast the ports stood s

On this day in Labor History the year was 1956. That was the day of the founding of the Canadian Labour Congress.  Today the Canadian Labour Congress is the largest labor organization in Canada repres

On this day in Labor History the year was 1970. That was the first observation of Earth Day.  Across the United States, millions took to the streets and parks to demonstrate for clean air, water, a re

On this day in Labor History the year was 1920.  That was the day remembered in Butte, Montana as “Bloody Wednesday” or the “Anaconda Road Massacre.”  Butte was in the heart of copper mining country. 

On this day in Labor History the year was 1853.  That was the day that Harriet Tubman led her first trip on the underground railroad, the clandestine network that helped enslaved people escape slavery

This marks the day one of the most horrendous acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. History occurred in Oklahoma City.  A truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killing 168 people. 

On this day in Labor History the year was 1857. That was the day that Clarence Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio.  Darrow was perhaps the original U.S. labor lawyer.  Known to be a friend to underdogs,

On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That a day of tragedy for workers in the goldfields of Siberia.  Gold miners by the Lena River in Southeast Siberia worked under brutal conditions. The