What You Need To Know About Gen Z’s Support for Unions

The Labor Heritage Foundation is a rich resource for wide variety of labor cultural links including labor songs, films and much more.

Union Songs for Kids!

The Inheritance – A dramatic and stirring video history of the labor movement from 1900 to the Civil Rights era featuring historic footage and labor songs.

Five Farmworker Rights Activists Your Students Should Know About

Proposed LHM Biden Proclamation

Proposed Governor’s LHM Proclamation

Labor’s Bookstore

Why unions are good for workers

A great resource for teaching how to start, join, and support unions

The human rights, legal and religious authority guaranteeing workers the right to organize and bargain collectively. by Paul F. Cole

The thirteen projects bring together maps, films, slide shows, nearly one hundred video oral history interviews, and several thousand photographs, documents, and digitized newspaper articles. and lesson plans for teachers.

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

An online labor newspaper with news from across the nation, New York State & Western New York.

Unions protect workers’ hard-earned benefits: unmasking the attack on unions

Click HERE to read more

AFT Labor Union Education Resources

Official LHM Proclamation

Hardball and Handshakes: a standards-based curriculum on the evolution of labor relations in Major League Baseball

Paul F. Cole’s Baseball Hall of Fame Remarks.

Share My Lesson: Union History and Social Justice Lessons

Click HERE for Lesson Plan on Kate Mullany

How today’s unions help working people
By the Economic Policy Institute.

This paper addresses the issue of income and wealth inequality in the
United States and an exploration of its causes, effects and solutions with
a particular emphasis on working families.

Learn about the best and most comprehensive state federation program for teaching about labor.

A rich resource for books, DVDs, posters, buttons and other items about labor.

The American Labor Merit Badge was established by the Boy Scouts in 1987. For requirements and more.

Quick Links – An Alphabetical Guide to All Web Site Resources

There is currently a great debate in the United States on the issue of the rights of workers in both the public and private sectors to organize and bargain collectively. Missing from the current national debate is the issue of whether the rights of workers are considered fundamental human rights as articulated in a number of universally accepted documents.

Click here for a number of excellent resources for teachers and students on the topic.

Friday, March 25, 2011 marked the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire where 146 victims, mostly young female immigrants, perished in one of the nation’s most tragic workplace disasters.

The 100th anniversary of the event presents teachers with an opportunity to explore the Fire and its legacy that continues to today.