Joseph Szalanski set off to tour the country in 1932 with 48 cents in his pocket. The 22-year-old from East Vandergrift, a ...

An event on Sunday remembered one of the most violent conflicts in American labor history that happened in the Pittsburgh region.

The mighty Homestead Works — for many years the largest steel mill in the world — went dormant in 1986. In 1953, some 650,000 Americans worked in the steel industry, according to the American ...

"A steelworker at the Homestead Steel Mill out east was worried they locked up the union hall. They were going to lock up all these artifacts in the union hall so he gets a U-Haul and some wire ...