construction

Immigrants demonstrated their willingness, when asked, to support British workers in struggle in this victorious strike of 300 building workers…

The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general…

A history of the massive campaign of industrial action by building workers which protected the environment and local communities by enacting…

A short account of how construction workers saved the Kelly's Bush area of park land in Australia from development by refusing to work, and …

107 workers and their families will face court today in Perth, facing prosecution for taking industrial action following the sacking of their union representative.

Louis Adamic immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia at age 14 and was naturalized in 1918. This essay describes his experiences as a…

A review of "Rank and File or Broad Left: Democracy versus Bureaucracy - A short history of the Building Worker Group" by Brian Higgins, from…

Three bricklayers jailed this month for picketing building sites where they'd be refused work have been released.

A short biography of Swiss building worker, labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Lucien Tronchet.

Construction workers for Laing O'Rourke at the Heathrow Terminal 5 site are likely to begin a three day strike from Tuesday morning at 6.45 until the same time Friday morning over their ongoing pay dispute.

A second strike by workers building Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport looks set to go ahead.

With a cell phone crooked in her ear and scores of activists cheering her on in the 2000 block of Reynes Street, lawyer Tracie Washington sent a backhoe and its crew packing from the Lower 9th Ward Thursday morning...