labor strikes

On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.

A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.

During the Great Depression, St. Louis's Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. But Black workers went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them.

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.

The first UAW strike was in the 1930s. Over the next century, the union amassed significant power while demanding higher wages, better benefits and protections.

The 1941 strike, following the spectacular success of “Snow White,” stunned Walt Disney and rattled his now-storied company.

Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

The deep roots of the latest WGA strike.

The frightening character who appears amid US union disputes can be traced back to a single factory, which wasn’t unionized.

The railroad company remains a site for Americans to grapple with key questions about the nature of American capitalism.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

More than 500 historians signed onto this letter of support for the demands of railway workers.

Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.

Murdered during the 1929 Loray Mill strike, Ella May Wiggins became a working-class martyr—and a symbol of labor’s fight to democratize the anti-union South.

84 years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble.

W.E.B. Du Bois defined the shift from slavery to freedom as a “general strike” — and there are parallels to today.

A history of cemetery workers' strikes.

Derrion Arrington explains the strike against Sanderson Farms in Laurel, Mississippi.

At a recent commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, songs of struggle took center stage.