Labor

News

North American labor leaders delegation gets a big Belfast welcome

A DELEGATION of North American labor leaders have visited Áras Uí Chonghaile (the James Connolly Centre) on the Falls Road in Belfast to coincide w...

September 21, 2024 by Conor McParland

News

$106m in pension funds targeted at North of Ireland: NY Comptroller

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has revealed that there is now $106m in State retirement funds focused on investments in the North of Irela...

September 13, 2024 by Anthony Neeson

Opinion

EDITORIAL: Unions Rising Albeit Slowly

About seven in 10 Americans say they approve of labor unions. This is just points away from the record-high approval rating for organized labor, ac...

September 11, 2024 by Irish Echo Staff

Community Features & Events

Carpenters' Union Honoree Recalls Labor Day Origin at Echo Awards

Carpenters Union veteran Tommy Costello saluted comrades across the nation as he accepted his Irish Labor Leader award at the annual Irish Echo awa...

September 10, 2024 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

News

New York labor leader honored at Belfast's James Connolly Center

A New Yorker reknowned for his standout labor union work in the USA has been given a lifetime membership of Áras Uí Chonghaile/James Connolly Visit...

July 25, 2023 by Conor McParland

News

Labor chief says Irish radicals trailblazed workers' rights battle in New York

James Connolly’s legacy is hard to quantify, given how large his presence remains in both Irish politics and in the trade union movement. Connolly ...

August 16, 2022 by Joe McCann

Culture

Mullany made women’s labor history

A postcard of the Cluett, Peabody & Co. Collar Cuff and Shirt Factory, Troy, N.Y. By Geoffrey Cobb Irish women have played a long and prominent rol...

June 02, 2020 by Geoffrey Cobb