Skip to main content

labor

Lubberland

Joseph B Atkins Labor South
The South's patrician political leadership still has contempt for the lower classes of "Lubberland"

labor

The PRO Act

Olivia Paschal Facing South
Would undo decades of Southern anti-union laws rooted in racism.

The PRO Act

Olivia Paschal Facing south
Would Undo Decades of Southern Anti-Union Laws Rooted in Racism

labor

When Deregulation is Deadly

Bryant Simon The Gender Policy Report
On September 3, 1991, the Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet, North Carolina burst into flames. Twenty-five people died, trapped behind the locked doors of the red-brick factory. Most of the victims were women; many were women of color, most were single moms. Another sixty people were injured, and the blast left more than fifty children orphaned. Local officials called the fire an accident, but the women and men who worked at Imperial had been made vulnerable by the factory’s owners as well as public policy.

labor

Boeing's North Charleston S.C. Workers to Vote on Union Representation

David Wren Post and Courier
"Labor and community groups supporting the efforts by Boeing workers to form a union will also be in attendance," the IAM's announcement states. Evans, the IAM's lead organizer in North Charleston, and Ken Riley, the longtime president of the local longshoremen's union, are scheduled to speak at Friday's event.

Anti-union Nissan makes big gift to Evers Institute but forgets civil rights martyr Medgar Evers was a big union supporter

Joseph B. Atkins Labor South
My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute. Known in his later years as the “dean of Mississippi’s labor organizers,” Smithhart worked closely with civil rights martyr Medgar Evers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, forging a link between the labor and civil rights movements that Martin Luther King Jr. himself saw as key to the future of both.
Subscribe to Southern Labor