organizations/agencies--local, national, international
on-line archives, museums, and other projects
BIGLabor.com (gateway to every US union website, labor cartoons, today in labor history, stewards’ tips, labor books, labor songs, and a whole lot more)
Center for the Study of Working Class Life, State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook
Center for Working-Class
Studies at Youngstown State University
Internet Labor and Union Resources, courtesy of the Building Bridges radio program (links to numerous labor organizations and projects)
History Matters (gigantic gateway to sites in U.S. history)
The New Deal Network
(links to sites on American life during the Great Depression)
AFL-CIO
affiliates - state federations and local labor councils
AFL-CIO constituency groups:
A. Philip Randolph Institute
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
Pride at Work
Selected unions (Change to Win, AFL-CIO, and independent):
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
American Federation of Television and Radio
Artists (AFTRA)
California Nurses Association-National Nurses
Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC)
Communications Workers (CWA)
International Association
of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(IBEW)
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
(ILWU)
Organization of Staff Analysts
(OSA) - a good gateway to many other labor sites
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Teamsters (IBT)
United Auto Workers (UAW)
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners (UBC)
United Electrical Workers
(UE)
UNITE HERE
Association for Union Democracy
Bread and Roses Cultural Project
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence
Corp Watch (U.S.)
Labor and Working Class History Association
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
SweatFree Communities - A Network for Local Action Against Sweatshops
Tamiment Institute Library & Wagner Labor Archives
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
United Association for Labor Education
National Labor Relations Board
on-line archives, museums, other projects:
TheWorkSite.org (information and resources for grassroots activists)
Class Matters (website connected with the book Class Matters, by Betsy Leondar-Wright)
American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning
Documenting Labor Inside and Out (New York State)
Jim Crutchfield's I.W.W. Page (documents from the Industrial Workers of the World)
Documenting the American South
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
The Labor Project: Labor and Working Class History in the Pacific Northwest
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
Voices From the Dustbowl: Migrant Workers in California, 1940-1941
Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress
The Dramas of Haymarket and Chicago Anarchists on Trial (another Haymarket site)
The Triangle Factory Fire (March 25, 1911)
Bisbee Deportation of 1917 (IWW)
The Hard Hat Riots, May 8, 1970
Workers Independent News Service - labor news, audio and text
LaborNet - global communication for a democratic, independent labor movement
Labour Start - international labor news
Working Life - Jonathan Tasini's blog on labor issues, published by the Labor Research Association
Common Dreams - links to a host of articles, essays, news services, radio and TV programs, independent weeklies, government documents, etc.
Z Net - ditto
AlterNet - archive of progressive news
truthout - news and editorials from progressive and mainsteam sources
The Black Commentator - progressive news and views, from Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
Tom Paine.com - news and opinion
Informed Comment - Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion, from Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan
MRZine - news and views from the Monthly Review Foundation
National Radio Project
- labor news and much, much more, including first-rate investigative
journalism
Alternative Radio
- links to lotsa progressive radio stations and on-line programming
Democracy NOW! - progressive news program from Pacifica Radio; a new broadcast every weekday
Your Call Radio - progressive public affairs show from California, five days a week
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - hard-hitting critiques of corporate news media; site includes RealAudio for the FAIR's weekly radio show, Counterspin
Independent Media Center - news stories from independent media organizations, plus free-access discussion boards
The Middle East Research and Information Project - news and background on developments in Afghanistan and South Asia as well as the Middle East
BBC News - audio/video reports on world news (from the British public broadcasting system)
WBAI Radio - New York City's Pacifica Station
Flashpoints News Radio - daily investigative radio magazine, from Pacifica's KPFA in Berkeley
Free Speech TV - radical political analysis
Web Radio - links to on-line radio stations around the globe