Congress steps to avert impending rail strike at Biden's ask. What do the rail workers want?
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoPresident Biden asked Congress to intervene in a labor dispute between rail workers and their...
Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are rare, and this would...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe prospect of a potentially devastating rail workers strike is looming again, prompting the Biden...
'Union Station Riot' depicts dark side of railroad strike
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa. via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDec. 18—A painting at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art shows the dark side of a railroad strike in 1877. The oil painting, titled "Union Station Riot," depicts the station in Pittsburgh's ...
Around Burlington: Controversial newspapers were lively reads
The Hawk Eye via Yahoo News· 2 years ago1877 was not an especially good year for Burlington. Even more than usual, the town was split along class and ethic lines, thanks to a divisive railroad strike, a controversial city water project ...
How business and competition led to Merced becoming California’s ‘gateway’ to Yosemite
Merced Sun-Star via AOL· 1 year agoThe sounds of the season have already begun to fill the fresh, cold Merced air. Occasionally mixed...
Pen Mar transportation: Trolley cars on the mountain
Chambersburg Public Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDuring the mid-1870s, John M. Hood was president of the Western Maryland Railroad, and as all good managers do, he was looking to expand business and...
Grandview Heights Moment in Time
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen John F. Miller was 20 years old, he started work with the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad, which later became the New York Central...
Letters to the Editor: Medicare for All; pray to fight climate change
Mansfield News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLabor Day solidarity and Medicare for All On Labor Day 2022, numerous labor Unions across the Northwest Ohio Region marched in Toledo in the annual Labor Day parade. This is a great sign of ...
Coal Creek history: How Welsh coal miners ended convict leasing and slavery in Tennessee
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThis is a three-part series by Carolyn Krause drawing on Barry Thacker’s “Bringing the Coal Creek...
47 landmark Supreme Court cases that changed American life as we knew it
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMembers of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate...
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