‘We Took Care of Each Other’: A Maritime Union’s Hidden History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidarity
Decades before the modern LGBTQ+ movement, West Coast maritime workers organized against gay-bashing and red-baiting.
Decades before the modern LGBTQ+ movement, West Coast maritime workers organized against gay-bashing and red-baiting.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 dismantled the labor gains of the New Deal era and tipped the scales of bargaining power in favor of employers.
The NLRA sets general rules on U.S. workers’ right to collective bargaining, protection from employment retaliation, and the right to strike.
Right-to-work laws originate in racist fearmongering and serve to gut working-class power. They play a significant role in pushing inequality.