Harrisonville Telephone Company

19 Sep, 2017

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19 Sep, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - September 19

Chinese coal miners forced out of Black Diamond, Wash. - 1885

Between 400,000 and 500,000 unionists converge on Washington D.C., for a Solidarity Day march and rally protesting Republican policies – 1981

This Week in Labor History - September 19

12 Sep, 2017

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12 Sep, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - September 12

Eugene V. Debs, labor leader and socialist, sentenced to 10 years for opposing World War I. While in jail Debs received one million votes for president - 1918

Jobless workers march on grocery stores and seize food in Toledo, Ohio – 1932

This Week in Labor History - September 12

12 Sep, 2017

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12 Sep, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - September 11

Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a 10-week strike after winning an 8-hour day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores, where they had been forced to shop. (Remember the song, "Sixteen Tons," by coal miner’s son Merle Travis, in which there’s this line: "I owe my soul to the company store.") - 1897

This Week in Labor History - September 11

05 Sep, 2017

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Runaway Inequality Training 2017

The training explains how the economy is not working for the average American worker and that the vast divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots” has gotten out of hand.

Runaway Inequality Training 2017