Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show, Patrick Dixon interviews union organizer and labor historian Doug Nesbitt about the 1995 general strike by forty thousand workers in London, Ontario, Canada. Plus Noam Chomsky on general strikes and Leon Fink on the AFL-CIO's support for the Viet Nam war.
Death in San Antonio, Texas, of Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the American Federation of Labor - 1924
photo: 2011 Oakland CA general strike; part of the larger Occupy Oakland movement
Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services
Death in San Antonio, Texas, of Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the American Federation of Labor - 1924
photo: 2011 Oakland CA general strike; part of the larger Occupy Oakland movement
Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services
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