Links

The following is a listing of links on the internet outside of the MNA Web site that the MNA Labor Education specialists have compiled as a useful resource.

Union News

• Workers Independent News Service
• Portside: The Left Side of the Internet
• Working Families e-Activist Network
• Labor Notes
• Labor Union News
• Union Web Services
• Daily Labor News Digest

Labor History

• Labor History Sources
• Holt Labor Library
• A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers
• American Labor History
• Women’s Labor History Links
• A Short History of American Labor
• American Labor Studies Center

Government Agencies

• The National Labor Relations Board
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services
• Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission
• Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations
  (formerly the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration)
• U.S. Department of Labor
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Labor Organizations and Allies

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
• Association for Union Democracy
• AFL-CIO
• AFSCME
• American Federation of Teachers
• A. Philip Randolph Institute
• California Nurses Association
• Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
• Central Massachusetts AFL-CIO
• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• Coalition of Labor Union Women
• Doctor’s Council
• General Federation of Trade Unions
• Interfaith Worker Justice
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• Jewish Labor Committee
• Just Health Care Campaign of Massachusetts Labor Party
• Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
• Laborers.Org
• Labor Talk
• Massachusetts AFL-CIO
• Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
• Massachusetts Senior Action Council
• National Education Health and Allied Workers Union
• Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts
• Pride at Work
• Royal College of Nurses (Great Britain)
• Seachange Bulletin
• SEIU  - Service Employees International Union
• UAW -  United Auto Workers
• UNISON (Largest Union in United Kingdom)
• United Nurses of Alberta
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• Western Mass Jobs with Justice
• Women’s Institute for Leadership Development

Union Organizing

• Resources for Union Organizing
  • union-organizing.com
• Union Busting Watch
  • www.laborresearch.org/union_busting_watch.php
  • www.stopunionbusting.com
  • www.inthesetimes.com/article/3326/unionbusting_confidential
• American Rights at Work
• Organizing Institute

Research

• Non-Profit Employer’s Financial Information
• Financial Reports of For-Profit U.S. Companies
• Company Profiles
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • www.hoovers.com
• Political Donations
  • www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml
  • moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do
  • www.followthemoney.org
• Executive Pay Watch
• Law Firms and Lawyers

Labor Laws

• The National Labor Relations Act
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chapter 150 (e)
• Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
  (The Landrum-Griffin Act)
  • www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-lmrda.htm
  • www.uniondemocracy.com/Legal/lmrdatext.htm
• Labor Management Relations Act of 1947
  (The Taft Hartley Act)
  • hnn.us/articles/1036.html
• The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
  • www.osha.gov/pls/epub/wageindex.
    download?p_file=F15794/FairLaborStandAct.pdf
  • www.dol.gov/whd/flsa
• The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
  • www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/29/ch28.html
  • www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla
• Massachusetts Small Necessities Leave Act
• American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Massachusetts Minimum Wage Law
  • www.mass.gov/Cago/docs/Workplace
    Employment_MinWage2007.pdf
  • www.lawlib.state.ma.us/minwage.html
  • Living Wage Campaign and Ordinances
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
  • www.eeoc.gov/policy/vii.html
  • www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/2000e-16.htm
  • www.usdoj.gov/crt/emp/faq.html
• Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
  • www.osc.gov/userra.htm
  • www.dol.gov/elaws/userra.htm
• The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
  • www.eeoc.gov/policy/adea.html
  • www.eeoc.gov/types/age.html
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA
  • www.dol.gov/dol/topic/health-plans/erisa.htm
  • www.dol.gov/ebsa/aboutebsa/history.html
• Equal Pay Act
  • www.eeoc.gov/policy/epa.html
  • www.eeoc.gov/types/epa.html
• The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
  (WARN)
  • www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-warn.htm
  • www.doleta.gov/programs/factsht/warn.htm

General Labor Resources

• The United Association of Labor Education
• Center for Popular Economics
• Economic Policy Institute
• United for a Fair Economy
• Stop Sweatshops
• The Labor Educator

Health and Safety

• Safety and Health at Work
• Massachusetts Coalition For Occupational Safety And Health (MassCOSH)
• Western Mass COSH

Labor Colleges and Research Centers

• National Labor College
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center
• UMass Dartmouth Labor Education Center
• Labor Extension Program at UMass Lowel
• UMass Boston Labor Resource Center
• School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
• American Labor Studies Center
• The University of Iowa Labor Center
• UC Berkley Labor Center
• UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education
• Wayne State University Labor Studies Center
• University of Rhode Island – Schmidt Labor Research Center
• Center for Labor Education and Research – University of Hawaii
• The Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School (Trade Union Program)
• University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center