Labor Day is more than just a three-day weekend. It’s a celebration of workers’ rights in the United States, and the sacrifices made by people generations before us to make it easier and safer to make ...

DENVER (AP) — A century ago this Sunday, 11 children and two women died in a fire that followed a shootout between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners at a tent camp in southern ...

LUDLOW, Colorado – A southern Colorado site where 19 striking coal miners and family members were killed in 1914 is being dedicated as a National Historic Landmark. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter will join ...

One-hundred-and-one years ago today, the Ludlow Massacre in southern Colorado shocked people around the country. Striking coal miners and their families living in a tent city were attacked by company ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LUDLOW — A granite monument on a dusty plain in southern Colorado stands as a reminder of the Ludlow Massacre, in which, 100 years ago Sunday, 11 children ...

A century ago this week, a long-simmering conflict between miners on strike in the southern Colorado coalfields and troops of the Colorado National Guard erupted into the deadliest labor war in ...

Along the dusty main street of Ludlow are the abandoned remains of several businesses, and to the south are a couple of empty frame homes. This is all that is left of Ludlow. Had not it been the site ...

Maine Governor Paul LePage is sticking with his decision to remove a labor-history mural from its current home inside a Department of Labor building. In Colorado, there are no similar union-lovin’ ...

ONE HUNDRED years ago this week, the Ludlow Massacre resulted in the death of as many as 25 striking coal miners and members of their families, about half of them children. Members of the National ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On April 5, 2010, 29 coal miners died in the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in Montcoal, W.Va.. Approximately one year later, the official report on the ...

LUDLOW, Colo. – The southern Colorado site where 19 striking coal miners and family members were killed in 1914 is being dedicated as a National Historic Landmark. Gov. Bill Ritter will join United ...