Labor
Bread and butter issues at center of NYU strike
(Editor's note: this piece was written before the NYU Contract Faculty labor dispute was settled.) As another Irish-American Heritage month nears c...
March 25, 2026
by Stephen Butler
Homepage
Introducing your 2025 Irish Labor Leaders Line-Up
All eyes will be the Edison Hotel, Manhattan on 12 September when the cream of Irish America's labor leaders will be spotlighted at the 15th annual...
July 09, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Labor
Teamsters Pres travels across country to back Seattle strikers
Beneath the shadow of an overpass in Seattle’s industrial district, a sea of black-and-yellow jackets signalled strike action by locked-out workers...
April 26, 2025
by John Coghlan
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
