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Thomas Downing’s Oyster House opened in 1825 in the heart of the financial district. Not only did Downing turn oysters into a delicacy, but he was also the first to dish out fine dining.

Leading unions will strike for higher salaries and against government requisitions of oil installations, in their biggest challenge yet to President Macron.

The WWE wrestlers who put their bodies through the ringer on a near-nightly basis lack basic control over their work and lives. Many know they need a union — but the barriers to forming one are steep.

After a tentative agreement between railroad companies and unions was reached earlier this year, political leaders acted like the deal was settled. But thousands of rail workers just voted it down — which could put a national railroad strike back on the table.

The vote on Friday signaled another win for the labor movement

The arrest and death of a young Iranian woman by the morality police prompts the poet Esther Kamkar to consider her exile from home.

A system counting tips toward the minimum wage is being fought in many places.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison was a hotbed of student radicalism in the 1960s. and left-wing activists there were among the first of their generation to organize around issues related to their own mis-treatment as workers.

Weyerhaeuser workers are striking to say no to corporate greed, to an employer that would ask them to make sacrifices when it’s making record profits. That means their fight is the fight of all working people, and they need your support.

This new examination of the civil rights movement considers it in terms of a military-style campaign.