Historical American Labor and Union Newspapers Online

Union membership was about 15% in the 1930s and peaked at about 35% in the 1950s in the U.S. Currently, union membership is about 10%, even though in the past couple of decades, public-sector union membership has increased.

Unions, labor movements, and workers had specialty newspapers throughout the country. Some of these have been digitized and the links by state are below. Please note that I have excluded subscription databases from the list.

(Updated August 2023; recently added links are in BOLD)

California

Colorado

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Massachusetts

Maine

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Mississippi

Montana

Nevada

North Carolina

New York

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Good luck finding articles about your union ancestors!

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