Labor Unions and the Internet

Introduction

Labor union members, officers, and staff are increasingly recognizing the Internet as an important tool in their efforts to improve terms and conditions of employment.

Material in this guide may be used or reprinted with permission. If you have corrections or suggestions for other web sites, please contact us.

Prepared by Donna Lynn Schulman, November 2006.

Starting Points

OSHA - Occupational Safety & Health Administration: http://www.osha.gov/
OSHA was established by the Occupational Safety and Health Act to set and enforce standards; provide training, outreach, and education; establish partnerships; and encourage continual improvement in workplace safety and health. The web site offers portal pages for Workers, Teen Workers, Small Business owners, Hispanic workers and employers, and Spanish-speaking workers. There is a wealth of content, including the text of laws, regulations, and other legal directives; field inspection and technical manuals; statistics and enforcement data; compliance tools, including forms, facts sheets, and information on workplace hazards. Web site can be searched by keyword or through an alphabetical index.
Yahoo!: Index to Labor Union Information: http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Labor/
Labor-related Internet resources are divided by subject area. Most sites have been suggested by Yahoo! users and web site owners. Allows keyword searching of these sites.
AFSCME: Laborlinks: http://www.afscme.org/publications/1790.cfm
Directory of Labor-related links, including articles and statistics.
UC Berkeley: Labor Research Portal: http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/library/laborportal/index.html
From the Institute of Industrial Relations Library at UC Berkeley. Well organized jump off sites to national and international labor resources.
BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/
The major resource for statistics and data on the U.S. labor force, labor union membership, employment and unemployment, occupations and careers.
Cornell Law School: Cornell Legal Information Institute: Employment Law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Category:Employment_Law
Find detailed legal guides for the sub-categories of affirmative action, civil rights, collective bargaining, employment, employment discrimination, labor pension, unemployment compensation, workers compensation, and workplace safety. The guides include overviews, cases, regulations, statutes, and secondary sources.
Riley Guide: http://www.rileyguide.com/
An organized collection of links to web sites on jobs and careers.
CDC: NIOSH: National Institute of Occupational Safety And Health: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh
A major source of information on technical, educational, and training information on occupational safety and health and workplace hazards.
Library Databases: http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/fyidocs/library.html
From the American Bar Association, a listing of public library database collections. Many public libraries now offer extensive database collections free to their patrons. For most libraries these databases can be accessed from a remote computer with a library card ID number. Which means research can be conducted at home or at the office utilizing these powerful resources.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

CPR - International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution

http://www.cpradr.org/

CPR is a membership-based, nonprofit alliance of global corporations, law firms, scholars, and public institutions dedicated to the principles of conflict prevention and solution through alternative dispute resolutions. They offer ADR case decisions and practice guidelines, CLE courses, publications and conferences.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Subject Guide

This Catherwood Library Subject Guide describes the best resources in print and on the web for researching ADR topics.

OPM: Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Resource Guide

http://www.opm.gov/er/adrguide/

From the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the Guide provides an overall picture of how the most common forms of ADR are being implemented in Federal agencies. It summarizes a number of current ADR programs, and it includes descriptions of shared neutrals programs where agencies have collaborated to reduce the costs of ADR. It provides a listing of training and resources available from Federal and non-Federal sources. It also provides selected ADR-related web sites.

AAA - American Arbitration Association

http://www.adr.org

Founded in 1926, the American Arbitration Association offers a wide range of services, including education and training, publications and the resolution of a wide range of disputes through mediation, arbitration, elections and other out-of-court settlement techniques. Their site includes a focus area on labor, with rules and procedures, forms, guides, and an overview of their services.

FMCS - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

http://www.fmcs.gov

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was created in 1947 as an independent agency that provides mediation and conflict resolution services to industry, government agencies and communities. The FMCS web site focuses on describing their various ADR services and educational programs. More general information on ADR can also be found in various sections, including an FAQ that defines ADR procedures, a historical Timeline of Events (ADR milestones), and Best Practices case studies.

Guide to ADR

http://www.hg.org/adr.html

Sponsored by Lex Mundi, an association of independent law firms, this page is a comprehensive site with extensive links to all areas of ADR, both national and international. Publications, daily news updates, commentary, laws and regulations, state, federal, and agency links are included.

National Mediation Board

http://www.nmb.gov/

The National Mediation Board was created in 1934 to facilitate harmonious labor-management relations within the railroad and airline industries. The NMB web site describes their various mediation and arbitration services and makes available NMB manuals and a large library of documents that includes arbitration decisions, union constitutions and by-laws, collective bargaining agreements (all of the above from railroad and airline industries).

Campaign Finance

Yahoo!: U. S. Elections>Campaign Finance

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Elections/Campaign_Finance/

This Yahoo! directory (and subdirectories) list organizations that study or report on campaign finance, organizations that seek to reform campaign finance law, and state databases for state campaign finance data

Open Secrets

http://www.opensecrets.org

Subtitled "Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections", this guide to federal campaign contributions makes it easy to track donors (by individuals and PACs), recipients, and trends (giving by industry). Although the site focuses on federal elections, some local data and links to state and local campaign finance web sites are available. OpenSecrets was created by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit organization.

FEC - Federal Election Committee

http://www.fec.gov

This government web site includes campaign finance reports and data (including historical campaign data), campaign finance law resources, election and voting information, and press releases.

NYS: New York State Board of Elections

http://www.elections.state.ny.us/

This is the home page of the New York State Board of Elections. Go to the "Campaign Finance" link for documents and guides to filing campaign finance disclosure forms. The "Disclosure Reports" link will take you to the database of disclosure documents by contributors and candidates.

New York City Campaign Finance Board

http://www.cfb.nyc.ny.us

This Web Site provides information about the work of the New York City Campaign Finance Board including the voluntary New York City Campaign Finance Program that provides public matching funds to candidates who meet the requirements of the Program, the New York City Voter Guide; and a searchable contribution database.

Collective Bargaining

AFSCME: Facts at Your Fingertips: Collective Bargaining

http://www.afscme.org/members/1254.cfm

AFSCME's guide to online resources for collective bargaining research. Resources are a mix of AFSCME publications and outside web sites. (Many of the AFSCME links have not worked since they redesigned their web site in mid-2006, researchers can usually find them through a search of the site or a Google search of the title.) Topics include contract language, employer research, wages and salary data, cost of living data, fringe benefits, and costing out.

BLS: Collective Bargaining Homepage

http://www.bls.gov/cba/home.htm

Part of the huge Bureau of Labor Statistics web site, the Collective Bargaining Home Page provides links to those part of the BLS sites with data and information related to collective bargaining and the labor relations process. If you don't remember the exact web address of the Collective Bargaining Agreements program or the Work Stoppages program or where to find union membership data, this is the place to start. It also provides links to BLS publications and other U.S. government web sites that would be useful to labor relations practitioners and researchers.

BLS: Compensation and Working Conditions Online

http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This quarterly online periodical includes articles, summaries of major studies, and data tables and charts contributed by BLS economists, statisticians and outside scholars. You may read abstracts of the articles and then download the full article using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Data tables include information on the Employment Cost Index (ECI), Employee Benefits Survey, the National Compensation Survey, major work stoppages, and occupational injuries and illnesses and fatalities.

CLEAR: Collective Bargaining FAQs

http://homepages.uhwo.hawaii.edu/~clear/CB-FAQ.html

This FAQ explains the basics of collective bargaining law in the private sector, from employees' rights to form a union to holding a union election to mandatory subjects of bargaining. The explanations are clear but brief.

Collective Bargaining (Univ. of Missouri--Columbia)

http://labored.missouri.edu/Collective%20Bargaining.htm

This is a set of lectures by Paul K. Rainsberger, director of Univ. of Missouri--Columbia's Labor Education program, on collective bargaining. Topics are: Historical Models, Behavioral Factors Influencing Union Bargaining Power, Effective Negotiations, The Bargaining Climate, Techniques, and The Arithmetic of Collective Bargaining. The lectures are oriented towards labor students and are practitioner-oriented.

Cornell Law School: Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration (LII)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/collective_bargaining.html

From the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School, provides an overview and links to federal, state, and international legal material.

EMCC: Collective Bargaining Europe

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu02008s.html?p1=matrix&p2=Collective_agreements/Restructuring

Collective Bargaining Europe aims to ensure the supply of information on current bargaining developments related to coordination of collective bargaining, particularly at European level. The site is organized in five sections: Country-reports that contain contributions to the annual ETUI Collective Bargaining Report in advance of publication; Special features contains background information, macro-economic descriptions, and best practices on relevant collective bargaining topics; European activities contains the latest developments of initiatives leading to coordination at various trade union levels, statistics and figures with relevant data on determinants of collective bargaining, wage and labor costs as well as working time; and links to related to collective bargaining in Member States as well as towards main actors of the policy-mix at EU level.

Glossary of Labor Terms (American Rights at Work)

http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/resources/laborglossary.cfm

Brief definitions of over 150 terms used in collective bargaining and union organizing.

UE: Independent Connection: Numbers Crunching for Negotiations

http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/ic_costcon.html

The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America provides this page to help union negotiators cost out contracts.

Collective Bargaining Agreements

BLS: Collective Bargaining Agreements File

http://www.bls.gov/cba/cbaccess.htm

The Bureau maintains a file of contracts which are searchable by organization name, union, SIC, and location. In many cases, full text of the contracts are available in pdf format. See the Online Listings of Private and Public Sector Agreements for available contracts. For historical agreements from this collection, contact the Kheel Center at ILR.

IRLE: Labor Contracts Database (UC Berkeley)

http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/index.php?page=3

A “one-stop public on-line clearinghouse for catalogued and digitized complete text of union contracts”. At present, the database contains 300+ contracts. Many of the contracts are public sector and from California, though over 38 states are represented.

NYS Governor's Office of Employee Relations: Collective Bargaining

http://www.goer.state.ny.us/CNA/

Text of bargaining agreements between New York State and various unions representing state workers; matrix of “articles” in each contract by topic; salary schedules; negotiated training programs.

Wisconsin Office of State Employment Relations: Labor Relations

http://oser.state.wi.us/section_detail.asp?linkcatid=389&linkid=27

This section of the Wisconsin OSER web site contains the final text of collective bargaining agreements with unions and employee associations that negotiate with the state. Occupations represented by the bargaining units include state attorneys, building trades, professional employees, health care professionals, physicians and dentists, teachers, clerical employees, graduate students, and more.

Actors' Equity Association Document Library

http://www.actorsequity.org/library/library_home.asp

Actors' Equity Association (AEA) represents actors and stage managers working in theatres throughout the U.S. See the Agreements section of the Document Library for PDF copies of over 50 collective bargaining agreements (called Rulebooks) with theatrical producers and theatres, including Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional.

AFSCME: Checklist of Contract Clauses

http://www.afscme.org/members/1258.cfm

This checklist identifies types of contract language included in typical collective bargaining agreements. It is intended to be a guide or reminder for union negotiators, and does not include sample or model language for the clauses.

Newspaper Guild Model Contracts

http://www.newsguild.org/barg/display.php?storyID=900

Model collective bargaining agreements are provided, one for U. S. and one for Canadian members.

Associated General Contractors of America, San Diego Chapter

http://www.agcsd.org/labor/agreements.htm

Construction labor agreements with Plasterers and Cement Masons, Teamsters, Carpenters (building), Carpenters (engineering), Iron Workers, Laborers (building), Laborers (engineering), and Operating Engineers.

CWA & Cingular Wireless

http://www.washtech.org/misc/cingular/2005Contract.pdf

Text of groundbreaking contract (achieved under neutrality conditions) ; Cingular is the only unit of unionized wireless workers.

United Transportation Union (UTU) Agreements

http://www.jaysworks.com/1637/agree/jlsutu1.htm

The full text of national agreements (back to 1964) and local agreements negotiated by UTU units working the BNSF Northern rail lines are offered on this web page; interpetative documents, such as memoranda and guidelines are also reprinted.

UNITEHERE! Local 54: Contracts

http://www.herelocal54.com/

"Main Union Contract" with Atlantic City hotels and casinos plus job/salary schedules for individual properties. (See links on left.)

Government & Politics

FirstGov.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal

http://www.firstgov.gov/

Firstgov.gov is designed to help citizens and businesses find U.S. services and information on the Internet. You can find information by type (ex., data, forms, laws, libraries), by topic (ex., jobs, education, voting), or by audience (ex., kids, parents, seniors). There is also an A-Z Directory of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies.

Project Vote Smart

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

The purpose of Project Vote Smart, a "citizen's organization", is to provide voters with unbiased, accurate information about electoral candidates. The basic categories of information are: biographical information, campaign finances, issue positions, interest group ratings, voting records, and public statements.

State and Local Government on the Net

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

A well-organized guide to state, regional, county, municipal, town, borough, and village government web sites. (The city guides are the product of the sponsoring company.)

THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Thomas provides free access to a wide range of legislative information on the Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 103rd to the present Congress, a directory of congressional committees and members of Congress, the weekly floor schedule for the House, and a schedule of daily committee hearings. Includes text of How Our Laws are Made by Edward F. Willett Jr.

Yahoo!: Directory on U.S. Political Issues

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Political_Issues/

A convenient directory of web sites on diverse, sometimes controversial political issues (ex., death penality, race relations). Use with caution, many of these sites represent one, sometimes an extreme, viewpoint.

BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of Labor is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor.

International & Foreign Labor

International/Global Subject Guide

This Catherwood Library Subject Guide describes the best resources in print, in databases and on the web for researching labor relations issues in foreign countries and worldwide.

DOL: Foreign Labor Trends (ILAB)

http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/flt/main.htm

From the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, the Foreign Labor Trends (FLT) report series is designed to be an informative and authoritative source of information on labor institutions, practices, and recent key developments in the countries reported.

EIRO - European Industrial Relations Observatory

http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/

The European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) is a monitoring instrument offering news and analysis on European industrial relations. A project of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, EIRO began its operations in 1997. Its aim is to collect, analyze and disseminate high-quality and up-to-date information on key developments in industrial relations in Europe. Among the most useful sections of this site is the Comparative Information.

ILO - International Labour Organization

http://www.ilo.org

The ILO is an international organization which formulates labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights. It provides technical assistance in the fields of working conditions, employment policy, labor law, social security, management development, vocational training, occupational safety and health, and labor statistics.
The ILO web site offers a wealth of resources to the researcher, including free ILO databases on labor relations literature, safety & health, and related topics, reports and publications (some available free, some must be ordered), and the text of its Conventions and Recommendations and Standards.

International Confederation of Free Trade Union (ICFTU)

http://www.icftu.org/focus.asp?Issue=trade

The ICFTU is an international confederation of trade union organizations and centres. Its web site, which can be read in English, French or Spanish, contains its documents and publications on child labour, equality, globalisation & economic affairs, multinational enterprises, health & safety, organising, trade union rights, and trade & labor standards.

LabourStart

http://www.labourstart.org/

LabourStart is an online news service maintained by a global network of volunteers, which aims to serve the international trade union movement by collecting and disseminating information. Its features include daily labor news links in 17 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 630 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union, and alternative news sources by a network of nearly 350 volunteer correspondents based on every continent.

EMCC: Collective Bargaining Europe

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu02008s.html?p1=matrix&p2=Collective_agreements/Restructuring

Collective Bargaining Europe aims to ensure the supply of information on current bargaining developments related to coordination of collective bargaining, particularly at European level. The site is organized in five sections: Country-reports that contain contributions to the annual ETUI Collective Bargaining Report in advance of publication; Special features contains background information, macro-economic descriptions, and best practices on relevant collective bargaining topics; European activities contains the latest developments of initiatives leading to coordination at various trade union levels, statistics and figures with relevant data on determinants of collective bargaining, wage and labor costs as well as working time; and links to related to collective bargaining in Member States as well as towards main actors of the policy-mix at EU level.

Jobs & Careers

Google: Directory: Employment

http://www.google.com/Top/Business/Employment/

This is a directory of hundreds of web sites related to jobs & careers; categories include Job Search, Careers, Resumes and Portfolios, By Industry, and By Region.

Idealist

http://www.idealist.org/

Directory of nonprofit and volunteering resources on the Web. Provided by Action Without Borders ,a nonprofit organization that "promotes the sharing of ideas, information and resources to help build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives. This site includes daily job and internship alerts, volunteer opportunities, nonprofit jobs and internships, and other information. International in scope.

Riley Guide

http://www.rileyguide.com/

Job listings by occupation, place, population (i.e. women), or general listings. Find help with career and company research. Online resume databases. Margaret Riley writes, "All services and resources included in this guide must provide free and open access to the job listings they host or to significant other information, services, and/or resources of benefit to the job seeker&Some sites which charge for their services may be included since the information or service they offer is unique or the field or industry is not otherwise represented online."

Vault.com

http://www.vault.com/

This site offers professionals, HR specialists, and job searchers inside information on more than 3,000 companies and 50 industries through a searchable database. Free job postings, inside news on company culture and free email updates are also included. The site also has "Electronic Water cooler" message boards--a collection of company-specific message boards for employees.

Union Jobs Clearinghouse

http://www.unionjobs.com/

Listing of union jobs, divided by staff positions and trade positions. Includes United States and International.

Labor & Employment Law

Labor and Employment Law Subject Guide

This Catherwood Library Subject Guide lists the best research sources, online and in print, for doing labor and employment law research. The guide covers databases, journals, best books and encyclopedias, sources for statutes, and web sites.

FindLaw Labor

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/27labor/index.html

Searchable web featuring links to various labor law information including employment discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual harassment, The Family and Medical Leave Act, and electronic workplace issues. Resources include government documents, journals, newsletters, and articles, databases, web sites, legal materials, blogs and discussion groups.

Yahoo!: Index to Employment Law Sites

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Employment_Law/

Yahoo's directory of employment law sites is a great starting point. Choose from their list of sites or do a keyword search to find what you're looking for. Also lists companies and firms who work in this area.

AFSCME: State Public Employee Relations Boards

http://www.afscme.org/members/11073.cfm

This AFSCME (American Federation of State County and Municipal Employee) site lists the addresses, telephone numbers, and web sites of state public employee relations boards.

Cornell Law School: Cornell Legal Information Institute: Employment Law

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Category:Employment_Law

Find detailed legal guides for the sub-categories of affirmative action, civil rights, collective bargaining, employment, employment discrimination, labor pension, unemployment compensation, workers compensation, and workplace safety. The guides include overviews, cases, regulations, statutes, and secondary sources.

DOL: elaws: Employment Workplace Laws

www.dol.gov/elaws

Provides employment laws assistance for workers and small businesses. Choose individual Advisors designed to help understand employee or employer rights and responsibilities. These Advisors are interactive and answers are customized to specific circumstances. Examples are "Family and Medical Leave Act Advisor," "Asbestos Advisor," and "Veterans' Preference Advisor."

Employment Law from LawMemo

http://www.lawmemo.com

Ross Runkel’s summaries of current cases and developments in arbitration, employment discrimination, employment and labor law. Frequently updated are the Employment Law Blog, Arbitration Blog, Employment Law 101, and Employment Law Reviews.

NYS: New York State Unified Court System

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/home.htm

The official web site of the NYS court system. Information you can find here includes: how the court system works, court structure, directory of judges, directory of attorneys, information for jurors, directory & resources for "town and village justice courts", NYS and court decisions (all that are available online), careeer information. You can find the registry database of NY attorneys, which includes year of admission to the NYS bar, here: .

NLRB - National Labor Relations Board

http://www.nlrb.gov

The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector. The statute guarantees the right of employees to organize and to bargain collectively with their employers or to refrain from all such activity. Generally applying to all employers involved in interstate commerce--other than airlines, railroads, agriculture, and government--the Act implements the national labor policy of assuring free choice and encouraging collective bargaining as a means of maintaining industrial peace. Through the years, Congress has amended the Act and the Board and courts have developed a body of law drawn from the statute.

NYS Public Employment Relations Board

http://www.perb.state.ny.us/

The official NYS PERB web site offers information relating to the administration of the Taylor Law, including the text of the law, Rules of Procedure, forms, and summaries of PERB decisions archived back to 2000.

Labor Culture

Labor Heritage Foundation: http://www.laborheritage.org/
LHF is the focal point for arts and cultural activity for, about, and by labor unions and the labor movement. In addition to sponsoring labor arts exchanges and festivals, this web site offers a Directory of Labor Artists and Musicians, an Inventory of Labor Landmarks, a Calendar of Labor Cultural Events, online songs, and a catalog of CD's, art, videos, books, and other items (some hard to get elsewhere) for purchase.
UC Berkeley: Labor Culture (IRLR Library): http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/index.php?page=15
This subject guide by librarian and workers' arts maven Lincoln Cushing is a selective guide to web sites, books, and articles on labor music, visual art, organizations and events, film and video, journalism, portals, literature and history. The visual arts section is particularly good.
Bread and Roses Cultural Project: http://www.bread-and-roses.com/
Bread and Roses is the not-for-profit cultural arm of New York's Health and Human Service Union, 1199/SEIU. It was founded in 1979 as a resource for union members and students in New York City who would otherwise have little access to the arts. The web site helps to carry out this mission through virtual art exhibits of photographs and paintings of working people and workplaces (including a section devoted to painter Ralph Fasanella), links to other labor cultural resources on the Internet, and an online gift shop where, amongst other items, you can purchase the well-known Women of Hope poster series.
H-Labor: Arts Discussion Network: http://www.h-net.org/~laborart/
?€œA place for historians, labor activists, and artists to discuss the cultural and artistic artifacts of working people?€; like H-Labor, this is part of the H-Net academic discussion group network, interested non-academics are welcome.
UC Berkeley: Labor and Labor History Videotapes (UC Berkeley Media Resources Center): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/LaborVid.html
An excellent "videography" of documentaries and based-on-history films related to the labor movement. Over 150 titles are listed. Each title is annotated and there are links to related web sites.
UC Berkeley: Labor Themes in the Movies and TV (UC Berkeley Media Resources Center): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/labormovies.html
This selective listing titles in the UC Berkeley MRC collection is a good guide to major "mainstream" films about working people and labor unions. Each title is annotated and linked to the IMDB. There are also bibliographies of books and articles about labor films, On the Waterfront, and Salt of the Earth.
LABORARTS: http://www.laborarts.org
Co-sponsored by the Wagner Archives, Bread and Roses, and the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, this colorful web site exhibits photographs, paintings, buttons, artifacts--in fact, any object--related to the history and current world of workers.
Union Songs: http://unionsong.com/
This searchable site documents union songs and poems. Included are links to songs, articles, recordings, and books.

Labor History

WWW Virtual Library : Labour History

http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl

The Labour History Virtual Library is maintained by the International Institute of Social History to assist historians and researchers. They have put together an extensive listing of scholarly and content-rich web sites from around the world.

LC: American Memory

http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

The Library of Congress has made available hundreds of photographs, texts, films and audio recordings from its archival collections. There are over 100 digitzied collections, including African American Odyssey, Voices from the Dustbowl, Votes for Women, Work and Leisure, Haymarket Affair" and New York City.

Documenting the American South (Univ. of North Carolina)

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/index.html

DocSouth is a digital publishing project providing Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Haymarket Digital Collection (Chicago Historical Society)

http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.html

A pivotal and much-written about event in early U.S. labor history, the Haymarket Affair is documented here with digitized court documents, newspaper articles, photographs, and more. The Dramas of Haymarket, an interpretive web site co-sponsored with Northwestern University, is also accessible here.

Labor & Working-Class History Association

http://www.lawcha.org/

Lawcha is an organization of scholars, teachers, students, and activists who seek to promote awareness of labor and working-class history. See the Resources section for links to online oral history projects, exhibits, talks & tours, journals, listservs, conference reports, and the web sites of museums and archives.

ILR School (Cornell): Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire site (Kheel Center)

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

Presented by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!). Includes political cartoons, photographs, oral histories, bibliographies and more.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/

This major labor archives has mounted excellent digital exhibits on their web site, including: Brown v. Board of Ed. 50th Anniversary; SEIU District 925: Organizing for Raises, Rights and Respect; I AM A MAN-Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker's Strike; Sit-Down: A Brief History of the Flint Sit-down Strike; La Causa: A United Farm Workers Exhibition.

Labor Journalism

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)

http://www.fair.org

This media watchdog group provides current reports and research on bias in mainstream media and censorship. E-mail list available (and t-shirts that say “Don’t Trust the Corporate Media”!).

International Labor Communications Association (ILCA)

http://www.ilcaonline.org/

ILCA is the professional organization for labor journalists & communicators in North America; current web site offerings include educational materials on writing, photography and a list of ILCA members.

Journalist's Toolbox (American Press Institute)

http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/toolbox/

The American Press Institute develops educational programs for print and online journalists. The Toolbox lists web sites to go to for background information on current issues and more general reference sites for topics such as public records, expert sources, and statistics.

Newspaper Guild, CWA

http://www.newsguild.org

The Newspaper Guild represents journalists and media workers. Their web site offers news about labor relations in the journalism/media industry, salary data, and contract information.

Poynter Online

http://www.poynter.org/

The Poynter Institute is a nonprofit, independent organization and school for journalists. The web site extends this mission with articles "tip sheets", bibliographies and links to web pages on ethics, leadership, design, and writing/editing.

UPPNET

http://www.mtn.org/les

The organization for union television producers and radio programmers, UPPNet promotes “production and use of tv and radio shows pertinent to the cause of organized labor and working people”. Their web site and newsletter list all known labor radio and television shows broadcast in the U.S.

Stateline.org

http://www.stateline.org/

This nonprofit, independent web site is a resource for journalists, students, researchers and citizens interested in state-level policy issues. The site publishes state-related news on elections, crime, economy, health care, technology, taxes & budget, energy, politics and the environment daily (except for holidays). Additional reference materials includes an annual State of the States report.

Labor Studies & Labor Libraries

Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR), University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Business: http://www.uab.edu/clear/
Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California, Los Angeles: http://www.labor.ucla.edu/
Center for Working-Class Studies (CWCS), Youngstown State University: http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/
Center for Working-Class Studies (CWCS), Youngstown State University
CIRHR - Center for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto: http://www.chass.toronto.edu/cir/
The Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources is an interdisciplinary graduate teaching and research centre in the areas of human resource management, labour-management relations, and labour market and social policy. It is an impartial environment for all participants in the employment process: labour, management, and government.
CIRL: Community of Industrial Relations Librarians (CIRL), Member Libraries: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cirl/mem_libs.html
CLEAR - Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii: http://homepages.uhwo.hawaii.edu/~clear/
CLEAR - Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii
DOL: Wirtz Labor Library, U.S. Dept. of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/dol/library.htm
DOL: Wirtz Labor Library, U.S. Dept. of Labor
FIU: Center for Labor Research & Studies (CLR&S), Florida International University: http://www.fiu.edu/~clrs/
FIU: Center for Labor Research & Studies (CLR&S), Florida International University
Holt Labor Library: http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/
Holt Labor Library
ILO: International Labour Organization Library: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/index.htm
ILO: International Labour Organization Library
ILR School (Cornell) - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/
ILR School (Cornell) - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
ILR School (Cornell): M. P. Catherwood Library: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library
ILR School (Cornell): M. P. Catherwood Library
Industrial Relations Center - University of Minnesota

Catherwood Library