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This Day in Labor History: December 30, 1900. Advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help German colonialists institute a

This Day in Labor History: December 28, 1869. The Knights of Labor were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The organization grew slowly, but by the late 1870s, the Knights had become

The level of not understanding how American electoral politics actually work here is depressing. The GOP doesn't need any of this to be releected. Public support for relief leads to

This Day in Labor History: December 25, 1831. The Baptist Rebellion began in Jamaica. This slave rebellion of up to 60,000 people, put down over the next couple of weeks,

This Day in Labor History: December 23, 1872. Coal miners near Clearfield, Pennsylvania got into a fight with strikebreakers trying to mine coal during a strike. This tells us a

This Day in Labor History: December 22, 1988. The Brazilian rubber union leader and environmentalist Chico Mendes is murdered by a far-right cattle rancher. Let's talk about the connections between

This Day in Labor History: December 15, 1921. The Kansas National Guard arrived to break up women’s marches in support of a strike of coal miners in southeastern Kansas. Let's

This Day in Labor History: December 14, 1945. The House passed what would become the Employment Act of 1946 once Harry Truman signed it. Let's talk about this watered down

This Day in Labor History: December 12, 1957. The AFL-CIO evicted four unions from the federation for corruption, most notably the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Let's talk about corruption in

This Day in Labor History: December 10, 1789. Moses Brown, a Rhode Island businessman, hired Samuel Slater to build an English-style factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This began the Industrial

This Day in Labor History: December 8, 1886. The American Federation of Labor is founded in Columbus. Let's talk about the complex figure of Samuel Gompers and the little loved

This Day in Labor History: December 6, 1865. Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery. Arguably, the single most important event in the history of American labor,

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