Labor Resource Center

LRC Associate Director Nick Juravich interviewed Jon Brandow about his new book, GOLIATH AT SUNSET, for the Labor Heritage Foundation podcast. Check it out!

At 1p on WPFW, the Labor Heritage Power Hour features Jonathan Brandow on shipyard organizing and solidarity, the DC Labor Chorus in Jay Mallin’s “Highly Visible,” and David Correia’s favorite labor song.

Join us for labor’s and stories.

LRC Director Steve Striffler on the Nobel Peace Prize for Al Jazeera English

How Trump got his Nobel Peace Prize after all The Nobel given to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado was really a prize for Donald Trump.

Co-hosted by our amazing librarians and our Faculty Staff Union!

Labor Day in Boston!

Boston’s First Labor Day Parade Boston’s First Labor Day ParadeBe a part of history and join Boston’s First Labor Day Parade! The Greater Boston Labor Council is making history with Boston’s first-ever Labor Day Parade – and YOU are invited to march with us.We’ll follow a powerful route that honors the victories of the p...

On Thursday, May 29, our Associate Director, Nick Juravich, will be presenting at the South Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library on his book "Para Power" in conversation with PRSPs from the Boston Teachers Union, who just won a transformative new contract. Doors at 6pm and Zoom option available!

Author Talk: Nick Juravich - Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education Join UMass Boston's Nick Juravich, author of Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, in conversation with Sharon O'Dwyer and Cythnia Ferris, BTU Paraprofessional Council members from South Boston, for a conversation about "para power" past, present, and future. Where did this job ....

Very cool article about our friends and 2020 Jim Green lecturers from A People's Guide to Greater Boston, whose series of "People's Maps" is growing (you can see their first, of Lawrence, on the wall at the LRC)!

For Greater Boston, a different kind of freedom trail - The Boston Globe The book “A People’s Guide to Greater Boston” is being refigured into a series of maps so everyday explorers might tread a history that’s often devalued by the established culture.

Congratulations to workers at The Bostonian Hotel, who ratified their first union contract this week!

New essay by the LRC's Associate Director, Nick Juravich.

New York City Paraprofessionals Need More Half a century ago, New York City paraprofessional educators waged a campaign to win their first contract as part of the teachers union. It’s a history the union can draw on to win needed advances for paras today.