Sep 13, 2024
By Mike Elk
For more than 15 years, I have covered Randi Weingarten, the president of the 1.7 million member American Federation of Teachers union, but I have never seen her as excited as when she got the news that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a social studies teachers and AFT member, had been selected as...
Sep 4, 2024
In honor of Labor Day, earlier this week, we reaired a New
England Public Media special produced by Ian Coss and hosted
by local public historian Tom Goldscheider.
“This project is every historian’s dream,” said Goldscheider. “I stumbled onto a cache of union meeting records and newspaper clippings from the...