The Farmer-Labor Education Committee envisions the new exhibit as a project of hope in challenging times.
Peter Rachleff: ‘You Betcha’ art exhibit explores solidarity between MN workers, farmers
February 5, 2025 by
Peter Rachleff: Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes resonate 90 years later
June 10, 2024 by
Now is a great time to look back at 1934, to learn how a wide range of workers changed the course of history and to consider how today’s workers might change this course themselves.
Peter Rachleff: Looking for History Day help? Check out the East Side Freedom Library
December 9, 2022 by
The East Side Freedom Library invites the middle and high school students in your families to benefit from our rich resources and our experienced mentors. National History Day is a great program in which students are challenged to develop a project as an illustration of a theme. Students, individually or in small teams, might take […]
Peter Rachleff: Labor Day roots trace to St. Paul’s East Side
August 31, 2022 by
Most of us, from St. Paul workers and labor activists to labor historians like me, have been unaware of the role that St. Paul workers played in the establishment of the Labor Day holiday.
From the Eight-Hour Day to the $15 Minimum Wage: A conversation between past and present
March 24, 2021 by
In its inclusive membership, its vision of broad and sweeping change, and its insistence that all workers should share in the wealth that they produce, the Fight for $15 shares a kinship with the movement for the eight-hour day.
Lessons from labor history can inform our labor movement during COVID-19 crisis
May 4, 2020 by
The Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934 offer lessons valuable to our present challenge.
New labor college launching this spring in St. Paul
February 13, 2019 by
New Brookwood Labor College looks to build the labor movement of the future by educating workers into the working class.
Wage hike shows what’s possible when workers join together, think big
December 19, 2018 by
Six years ago, it was dismissed as too radical. Today, $15 for all workers is written into St. Paul’s legislative code.
Community Ed offers courses in labor history, construction careers
January 10, 2018 by
Want to learn more about local labor history? Looking to explore career opportunities in the construction trades? Community Ed has you covered.
Peter Rachleff: East Side Freedom Library celebrates second anniversary
June 24, 2016 by
This summer, the East Side Freedom Library is celebrating its second anniversary. Our roots lie in the vision that Dave Roe and Rudy Perpich had in the 1990s of a Labor History Center to tell the stories of the state’s workers and their labor movement, and our branches grow far and wide, reaching out to […]
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