Samuel Gompers by Emma Goldman [Published in The Road to Freedom (New York), Vol. 1, March 1925.] The numerous tributes paid to the late President of the American Federation of Labor, emphasized his ...

The monument recognizes the labor leader's fight for the eight-hour workday and the end of child workers. But his legacy is more complicated. At the corner of Pulaski Road and Foster Avenue on Chicago ...

John Hyland attended Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School in Mott Haven back in the 1960s, and credits the vocational school with his 33-year career with Verizon. “The only reason ...

Samuel Gompers is best-known for founding the American Federation of Labor, which remains one of the most influential unions in the nation and has led to legions of laborers throughout the United ...

When Express-News columnist Marcy Meffert read last Sunday's story on “A History of San Antonio in 50 Objects,” she reported one missing. “Did you ever come across the statue of Samuel Gompers, ...

Teachers at a charter school in the Chollas View neighborhood of San Diego voted Wednesday to decertify their union, following a years-long battle over labor representation and control there. The vote ...

Herkimer County Community College Assistant Professor Kathleen Stables received the Samuel Gompers Distinguished Service ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Richard Norton Smith talked about Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and the monument in Washington, DC ...