Aug 6, 2021 | School Blog Post
The Labor community has coalesced today around the sadness of a good man as well as a great leader in the passing of President Richard Trumpka. A Pennsylvania miner, he rose to become President of the United Mineworkers. He was a relentless advocate for workers,...
Aug 2, 2021 | School Blog Post
It has been said. “Those who do not heed the lessons of history, are destined to repeat them.” During the mid-19th Century In the midst of our Industrial Revolution and transformation from an agrarian society to one of production, we saw tremendous strife between the...
Jul 26, 2021 | Labor Life News
This June, the nurses of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA entered their third month of striking, what the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) is calling “one of the longest nurses strikes nationally in over a decade.” By the MNA’s own estimates the strike has...
Jul 26, 2021 | Labor Life News
We’re proud to announce that Mr. Jack Fell is our new Fr. Edward Boyle Fellow. Jack is a recent graduate of Hobart & William Smith Colleges with a BA in Political Science. A former captain of his school’s soccer team, Jack received HWS’ Blocker Scholarship to...
Jul 16, 2020 | Articles & Posts
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow 143 years ago, on July 16, 1877, workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia went on strike in response to wage cuts imposed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. They blockaded the railway, disabled the cars and announced that no train...
