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In this op-ed, an intern for the Pittsburgh Union Progress talks about her experience at a strike paper.

John Lewis' 1963 speech bluntly assailed deficiencies in the civil rights bill others were championing — but succeeded in doing so without undermining the day’s unity.

Sixty years ago today, hundreds of thousands gathered at the Washington Mall, where they heard Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Since then, we’ve beaten a retreat from the march’s vision of racial and economic justice.

Hospitals portray unions as opposed to the interests of patients. The opposite is true: health care unions have been the strongest advocates for safer conditions and patients who can’t pay debts.

Can romance’s fantasy of wealth survive the labor rights movement? Let’s ask, uh, this frothy K-drama.

The CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran

The National Labor Relations Board just made it a whole lot harder to union-bust.

In “The Great White Bard,” Farah Karim-Cooper maintains that close attention to race, and racism, will only deepen engagement with the playwright’s canon.

Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.

The move opens the door for postdocs and graduate students who want a union to push for better pay and working conditions