THU: Labor Heritage Power Hour (radio/online)FRI: GSU Reed Fink Talk: "White-Hot to Whitewall: Steel Archives Reimagined" (Virtual)FRI: Illinois Labor History Society Union Hall of Honor 2025 (IL)ONGOING: Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey (DC) (Ends Dec. 7)Don&

When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers Today at 1p on WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, historian Robert W. Snyder shares When the City Stopped, powerful frontline stories from NYC’s essential workers during the darkest days of COVID.Then

Production assistants and assistants on Netflix's “The Four Seasons” are looking to organize with Production Assistants United, Laborers (LIUNA) Local 724. The union received a supermajority of signed union authorization cards from crew members on the show in October.The prod

Members of AFSCME Council 31 and the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry have reached a tentative agreement ahead of a looming strike date.“After a long but productive bargaining session on Monday, Nov. 17, union and management representatives reached a tentative agreement on

“I Am of It”: Bernie Sanders on Eugene V. DebsOn this week’s Labor History Today: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders accepts the 60th annual Eugene V. Debs Award from the Eugene V. Debs Foundation in Terre Haute, Indiana. 

CraftsmanIn spare moments,I watch you work your magic How you cut and paintEach slab of wood to perfection A picture of finalityThough you would neverCall it finished And now they sayYour work is not neededYou can get this kind of stuffOnline, a

”Don't look at Gene Debs as some kind of historical figure. Look at him as somebody who is motivating us today.”Bernie Sanders at the 2025 Debs Award; listen on the Labor Heritage Power Hour.

Dying to Make A Living-The Local HoneysDon’t you wish there was a place all these Labor Songs of the Week were collected for easy viewing? There is! Check out our updated playlist here, where you’ll find 80 great labor song videos, including Hazel Dickens’ Fire in the Hole, Linda Allen’s Good Tr

UAW 2320 non-profit IT workers on strike in Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Labor Notes’ Sarah Hughes. 

SEIU's DRO Vision and Strategy Conference in Chapel Hill, NC. Highlights from SEIU’s recent Dream. Rise. Organize. 2025 Vision and Strategy Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina — where SEIU staff came together to reflect, recharge, and reimagine organizing for today’s challenges. The La

Where’s our Forty Acres And A Mule?This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Historian and former UAW organizer Rudi Batzell joins America’s Workforce Union Podcast to explain how the failure of land reform after slavery — and employers’ use of racial division and strikebreaking — shaped the early

In Colm Summers’s words, “The history of American theater is written in labor plays.”As the Artistic Director of Working Theater, a New York-based company completely committed to creating theater specifically “for, about, and with working people,” Summers would be the one to know. Founded in 198

The clock is ticking for Washington, D.C.’s 85-year old Wilbur J. Cohen building, described by preservationists as the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art” for the impressive art collection it holds, including works by Philip Guston and Ben Shahn. Living New Deal, a California-based nonprofit t

UAW Local 2110 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a vote to form a bargaining unit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The union would represent nearly 1,000 workers, including curators, conservators, retail specialists and educators. “Right now,

“My practice exists in the tension between rest and labor, between the intimacy of touch and the vast systems that shape our world,” says artist Malaika Temba. “Whether I am working on a small weaving or a large-scale installation, I am always asking what materials remember and who gets remembered t

Workers at renowned Washington, D.C., music venues have secured voluntary recognition of their efforts to organize with UNITE HERE Local 25. The workers will next move on to negotiate their first union contract with IMP. The workers include production, food service, bo

Historian and former UAW organizer Rudi Batzell joins America’s Workforce Union Podcast to explain how the failure of land reform after slavery — and employers’ use of racial division and strikebreaking — shaped the early U.S. labor movement. From “40 acres and a mule” to the CIO, Batzell shows how race and class remain inseparable in American labor history.And on Labor History in 2:00: Justice for Janitors. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  

Starbucks workers are on strike across the US. Here's a song for the picket lines.