Dart Taft praised the district office of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for stepping in a couple of years…
Harmon Dentās congregation āadoptedā an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets, food, and other treats to the…
Federal officials, then-Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives, and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg Materials in Mitchell, Indiana,…
Justin Arango said support for a union built over the years among workers at JSW Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio, as the…
Tonya Clark sat in her car along the side of the roadāsobbingāafter the doctorās office called to say she had breast cancer.…
Russell McCarthy takes two forms of insulin, along with various other medications, to help control the diabetes thatās plagued him for decades.…
Donneta Williams, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1025 and a longtime optical fiber maker at the Corning plant in Wilmington, North…
Management at Amfuel tried to bully Jo Tucker and her 200 co-workersāmost of them Black women, a number of them single momsāinto…
Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years…
The widowed single mom attacked grocery shopping with the doggedness of a Marine on a mission. To provide for her family in…
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