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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation 1913 labor protest song by activist Joe Hill (published in the IWW's Little Red Songbook) critiquing the military-industrial complex, questioning why money is spent on war while workers suffer.

LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK

Should I Ever be a Soldier by Joe Hill

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#LaborMusic #Music #Song

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L.A.-Area Escape Room Becomes the First One in the World with a Union Contract - Labor Heritage Foundation Workers who guide guests through a spine-tingling immersive experience at The Basement, an LA-area escape room, have become the first escape room workers in the world to reach an agreement for a union contract.Two years ago, the performers at the Sylmar attraction unionized wit

L.A.-Area Escape Room Becomes the First in the World with a #Union Contract

Workers at The Basement, an LA-area escape room, have become the first escape room workers in the world to reach an agreement for a union contract.

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TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY - Labor Heritage Foundation 1913: Joe Hill’s song “There Is Power In A Union” appears in “Little Red Song Book,” published by the Wobblies.1930: With the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and

TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY

There Is Power In A Union, unemployed workers demonstrate, and the Lordstown wildcat strike

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#LaborHistory #Lordstown #Ohio #music #song #LaborMusic

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Politics and Prose Workers Ratify New Contract - Labor Heritage Foundation United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 members who work at Politics and Prose bookstores in Washington, D.C., voted to ratify a new union contract last week.The bargaining unit covers roughly 70 staff—including both booksellers and baristas. Highlights of the new agreement include a

Politics and Prose Workers Ratify New Contract

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 members who work at Politics and Prose bookstores in #WashingtonDC voted to ratify a new union contract last week.

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Partially overturned streetcar during the Winnipeg General Strike. By L.B. Foote - http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/photos/3044.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17911564

Today in #LaborHistory 3/6/1925: Miners #strike in Cape Breton, #Canada against British Empire Steel Corp. #police killed 1 miner. Part of Canadian Labour #Revolt (1918-1925) led by the #OneBigUnion, inspired by #IWW & by #Vancouver & #Winnipeg #GeneralStrike to replace #capitalism with #socialism.

#OtD 6 Mar 1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @IWW union's Little Red Song Book. Get it and dozens of others in this Big Red Book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

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Miss today's Labor Heritage Power Hour on WPFW, featuring

✊ @seiu.org President April Verrett
🎭 Noah Wyle
🎶 Sean Duffy’s Favorite labor song
📚 #LaborHistory
and more?

Listen to the #podcast any time - find it on @laborradionet.bsky.social!

#LaborRadioPod #UnionStrong @sagaftra.org

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📚 Labor History in 2:00

Today: Frances Perkins, the first woman U.S. Labor Secretary and architect of the New Deal.

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#LaborHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

🎶 Favorite labor song - right now on the Labor Heritage Power Hour:

Billy Bragg’s “There Is Power in a Union.”

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#LaborMusic #Music #Song

🎭 “I’m grateful to this union… and the giants who fought before us.”

Actor Noah Wyle celebrates #unions — and Pittsburgh labor culture — on the Labor Heritage Power Hour

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✊ “Either you’re right or you’re wrong.”

On the Labor Heritage Power Hour RIGHT NOW:
@SEIU President April Verrett on worker power, solidarity, and democracy

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#LaborRadio #UnionStrong

🎨 Labor Arts News on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour

• Salt Lake City library workers win their #union
• @wgaeast.bsky.social contract victory
• Restoration of the historic @ueunion.org Solidarity Mural

Listen live on @WPFW 89.3 in #WashingtonDC or online at wpfwfm.org

#SLC #LaborArts

The Labor Heritage Power Hour goes LIVE at 1 PM with

✊ @seiu.org President April Verrett
🎭 Noah Wyle
🎶 Sean Duffy’s Favorite labor song
📚 #LaborHistory
and more!

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📻 Today at 1 PM on WPFW 89.3 FM

On the Labor Heritage Power Hour:
✊ SEIU President April Verrett on worker power & democracy
🎭 Noah Wyle on the power of unions
🎨 Labor Arts News
🎶 Favorite labor song
📚 Labor History in 2:00

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05-03-1984 UK: 6,000 miners went on strike at Cottonwood Colliery starting the great UK miners strike. They were joined by the majority of workers in the industry in opposition to pit closures, but their eventual defeat marked a damaging blow for working class power.

Free Screening Of "Union" At Montana State University - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation The Montana Federation of Public Employees invites you to a free public screening of the documentary "Union" in Bozeman.

TONIGHT: a FREE screening of "Union" in #Bozeman, #Montana.

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#BigSkyCountry #LaborFilm #Film #FilmSky

#OtD 4 Mar 1947 workers at the Biratnagar Jute Mill in Nepal went on strike demanding better pay and conditions. Soldiers repressed strike, but a nationwide civil disobedience movement was triggered. Eventually arrested strikers were released stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7957...

Erin Kelly, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-author of Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It, is presenting a lecture, Voice, Exit, and Emergent Empowerment: Findings from a Multi-Method, Cluster-Randomized Trial in U.S. Fulfillment Centers, at 4 pm in the Reuther Library (2nd floor conference room). Sponsored by the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues and the Department of Management, Ilitch School of Business.

Don't miss this exciting event coming up tomorrow at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, Erin Kelly speaking on her research on workers at US fulfillment centers. March 5, 4-6:00. Put on by the good people at Labor@Wayne's Douglas Fraser Center.

You've Almost Unlocked The Full Straus Matching Grant - Labor Heritage Foundation Thanks to the generosity of LHF supporter Phil Straus, every gift to the Labor Heritage Foundation is being matched dollar-for-dollar — up to $10,000. LFH is so close! We have just over $1,000 left to raise to unlock the full Straus Matching Grant. That means every do

We’re SO CLOSE to unlocking the full $10K Straus Matching Grant! Every gift to the Labor Heritage Foundation is doubled right now: tinyurl.com/yebaa8r8

Give today — don’t leave matching dollars on the table! Help us cross the finish line and power labor arts, media & the new Labor Landmarks Map.

We’re just $2,000 away from unlocking the full $10K Straus Matching Grant! Every gift to the Labor Heritage Foundation is doubled right now: bit.ly/4rQHLxM

Help us cross the finish line and power labor arts, media & the new Labor Landmarks Map.

Give today — don’t leave matching $$ on the table!

YouTube video by DublinWelsh Dublin MVC Choir sings Comrades in Arms, in Boston USA

(My home town!) The Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir featured in this week's @laborheritage.bsky.social Labor Heritage Power Hour performing David Correia’s favorite labour song, Comrade in Arms.

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Book Talk: Red Harbor (WA) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation Author Aaron Goings discusses his book

TODAY: historian Aaron Goings discusses his book "Red Harbor" in #Seattle.

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#Books #BookTalk #UofWA #LaborHistory