Greg Palast is a "New York Times"-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspaper "The Observer", eg. among others:. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but has also been known to work with labor unions and consumer advocacy groups. Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, …

Bruce "Utah" Phillips (b. May 15 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He describes the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action. He often promotes the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words. Utah Phillips' given name is Bruce Phillips. A fan of T. Texas Tyler, Phillips adopted the stage name U. Utah Phillips.

Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Ohio, was a Republican United States Senator and as a prominent conservative spokesman was the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953. He led the successful effort by the Conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions. He failed in his quest to win the Presidential nomination of the candidate of the Republican Party in 1940, 1948 and 1952.

Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth).

Hilda L. Solis (born October 20 1957), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 32nd District of California (map). The 32nd Congressional District includes parts of Los Angeles, unincorporated East Los Angeles, and the cities of Azusa, Baldwin Park, Covina, Duarte, El Monte, Irwindale, Monterey Park, Rosemead, South El Monte, and West Covina.

Morgan O. Reynolds , Ph.D., currently is Professor emeritus, economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He is a former Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor 2001-2002, and he also served as the Director of the Criminal Justice Center and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Meyer London (1871 - 1926) was one of two Socialist Party members elected to the United States Congress. London was born in Kalvarija, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1871. In 1891, he emigrated to the United States, taking up residence in New York's largely Jewish Lower East Side. London became a labor lawyer representing labor unions. He ran for Congress three times as a Socialist and was defeated by Tammany Hall-supported Democrats, but in 1914, …

Anthony "Toby" Moffett was a Connecticut politician during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and a Member of the United States Congress from 1974 to 1983. Moffett received degrees from Syracuse University and Boston College. In the early 1970s, he quit a job with the federal government to protest the Vietnam War. He then was aligned with consumer activist Ralph Nader and founded the Connecticut Citizen Action Group.

Valeriano Orobón Fernánez was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist theoretician, trade-union activist, translator and poet, who wrote the lyrics of the revolutionary song "To The Barricades". Born in Cistérniga, Valladolid Province, Orobón was active in labour movement struggles from an early age. An intellectual with a facility for languages, he translated the biography of the well-known German anarchist Max Nettlau written by Rudolf Rocker.

Rachel Sherman is an assistant professor of sociology at Yale University, and a well-known labor scholar whose work focuses on the revitalization of labor unions. She also is an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Cultural Sociology and the Center for Customer Insights, both at Yale.

Juan Negrín López was a Spanish politician and physician. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he became a university professor of physiology, and was named Minister of Finance in September 1936 in the government of Francisco Largo Caballero. In May 1937, Manuel Azaña (after Largo Caballero was dismissed) named Negrín President of the Government, with the hope of fortifying the central power front against largely independent armed labor unions and Anarchists, …

Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro (May 5, 1899-June 9, 1947) was a New York mobster and, with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for more than two decades. His nickname "Gurrah", according to underworld lore, apparently came from his tendency to slur his words with his habit of shouting "Get out of here !" as "Gurrah da' here!" to his underlings.

Christopher G. Donovan (born October 22, 1953, in Darby, Pennsylvania) is a Connecticut State Representative. He is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and represents the Eighty-Fourth Assembly District, which includes part of Meriden, Connecticut. Donovan was first elected to office in 1992 and has served as the House Majority Leader since being elected to that position prior to the 2005 Legislative Session.

Henry Drury Hatfield (b. September 15, 1875, d. October 23, 1962) was a Republican politician from Logan County, West Virginia. He served a term as Governor of the state, in addition to one term in the United States Senate. Hatfield was nephew to William Anderson Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield clan. Hatfield was born in Logan County, West Virginia on September 15, 1875. He graduated from Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio.

Michael McGovern (1848 - 1933) was a working-class poet who gained national recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was widely known as "the Puddler Poet", and his work reflected his support of labor unions. Born in Castlerea, Roscommon, Ireland, McGovern emigrated first to England and then to the United States. He eventually settled in Youngstown, Ohio, along with his wife, the former Anne Murphy, and secured work in the local steel mills.

Eugene Kinckle Jones was one the seven founders ("commonly referred to as Jewels") of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. He became Alpha chapter’s second President and co-authored the Fraternity name with Henry Callis. Jones organized the first three Fraternity chapters that branched out from Cornell: Beta at Howard University, Gamma at Virginia Union University and the original Delta chapter at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Maurice "Mossy" or "Mossie" Enright (d. February 2, 1920) was an Irish-American gangster and one of the earliest Chicago labor racketeers in the early 20th century. Little is known of Maurice Enright's background before his gang's violent and brutal methods managed to dominate Chicago's labor unions by the end of the 1900s.