Labor History

General strikes created labor heroes, along with a few labor martyrs, and they inspired new generations of workers to join unions.

When BAC Local 1 began on May 22, 1893, bricklayers were making $6 a day and working six 10-hour days a week.

Oregon was a very different place when the International Union of Steam Operating Engineers chartered a new local Sept. 18, 1918.

The 1.7-mile-walk through downtown Portland stopped at spots important to local labor history.

In Tacoma, Ralph Chaplin’s spirit is marching on.

A new book tells the story of a remarkable union victory in a California frozen food strike during an era of union-busting.

Fred Ross believed a good union organizer should fade into the crowd while others step forward.

A SE Portland beer hall takes its name from an early 20th century union-busting group

This year we're reproducing the front pages of 1916 editions.

In the end, King turned his focus to economic justice.

Branch 82 maintains photos and detailed historical records dating back to its formation in 1890.

Don't mourn, organize: Local activists will commemorate the 100th anniversary of his execution

In post-war St. Louis, two visionary Teamsters put their union in service of the community.

Local union attorney Susan Stoner has published the fifth in her series of historical novels

On July 11, 1934, a train full of Portland police opened fire on a strike picketline; 4 were hit.

Astoria, the U.S. oldest western settlement, was a waterfront boomtown full of radical immigrants

The historical mystery series follows a fictional trade union spy in early 1900s Portland.

Conventional narratives of the March downplay its economic demands — and labor’s central role

2011 —Year 3 of the Great Recession — may be remembered as Year 1 of the Great Fightback.

A new monument marks the grave of eight Chehalis girls killed in a 1911 fire at Imperial Powder.