Illinois Labor History Society

08/20/2026

https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/august-20-the-white-lion-docks-in-jamestown/

On this day in Labor History the year was 1619. That was the day that the first ship bearing enslaved people arrived in North America. It was an English warship called the White Lion, that came to Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. The ship was a privateer and had captured “twenty and odd” ens...

08/19/2026

https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/august-19-teamsters-fight-and-win-at-ups-1597831107/

On this day in Labor History the year was 1997. That was the day that a strike by the Teamsters Union against UPS ended with a victory for the union. The strike had started fifteen days earlier. More than 180,000 UPS workers participated in the action. It was the first nationwide strike by UPS worke...

08/19/2026

Heather Cox Richardson US 250 video series -- the 1877 Great Uprising.

Eric Arnesen is an esteemed American historian and professor at Geo...

08/19/2026

Heather Cox Richardson US 250 video series - the Cripple Creek Miners strike...

Born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, is a champion fo...

08/18/2026

Dill Pickle Club in the archives!

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/august-18-kemi-bloody-thursday

On this day in Labor History the year was 1949. That was the day that is remembered as “Kemi Bloody Thursday” in Finland. Two strikers were killed. Kemi is a lumber town in northern Finland. The lumber workers in the area went out on strike when the government proposed slashing their wages by mo...

08/17/2026

AFSCME members are educated and !

08/17/2026

Champaign - Urbana union iron workers create that next step for those with a difficult past...

There's an old proverb that says, "As iron sharpens iron, so one pe...