On June 10, 1963 President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act, an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act intended to end wage disparities and discrimination based on gender. Unfortunately, we are not celebrating 50 years of economic equality today. Admittedly,
Today’s entry is written by Rachel Schimke, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. On March 2, 1937, United States Steel signed a contract with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). SWOC, which would become the United Steel Workers
Today’s entry is written by Nicole Greenhouse, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Part of Tamiment Library’s history as an institution has been the collecting of ephemeral materials generated by trade unions. Much of this material, especially from
Today’s entry is written by Mary Corcoran, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Militant. Radical. These are just two of the adjectives attributed to the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in the pages of the Daily Worker. Founded
This blog post was written by Kate Donovan, Public Services and Instruction Librarian, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Commonly referred to as the Wagner Act, after its sponsor New York State Senator Robert F. Wagner, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passed
Today’s entry is written by Margaret Fraser, Project Archivist for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance Records. The New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) grew out of the Lease Driver Coalition, a segment of the Committee Against Asian American Violence (CAAAV), in 1998. In May
Today’s entry is written by David Olson, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. He is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program and at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science. On May
All throughout May, in honor of Labor History Month, we will be bringing you a variety of short articles, photo galleries, and linked content on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and here at the newly reinvigorated Back Table blog. Join us as we spotlight milestones
May Day seems an appropriate day to announce that the Robert Fitch Papers have been processed and are now available to researchers at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Fitch was a journalist, teacher and labor union organizer and one of the most consistently