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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation From SEIU Local 925:“There’s always a place for you on Solidarity Street. Solidarity with our union siblings at Sesame Workers Union!”

LABOR ART OF THE WEEK

From @seiu925.bsky.social

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#UnionsForAll #UnionMemes @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social

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Victorian Trades Hall Gets Closer To World Heritage Status - Labor Heritage Foundation The iconic Victorian Trades Hall in Melbourne has been nominated for World Heritage consideration. Believed to be the oldest purpose-built Workers Assembly Hall in the world still used by trade unions, the hall has hosted campaigns that have gone on to change Australia including the 8-hour workday m

Victorian Trades Hall Gets Closer To World Heritage Status

The iconic Victorian Trades Hall in Melbourne has been nominated for World Heritage consideration.

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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation If the People Unite - Seth Staton Watkins

LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK

If the People Unite - Seth Staton Watkins

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#Song #Music #LaborMusic

The Strike That Shook Nazi-Occupied Italy On this day, 1 March 1944, a series of coordinated general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy. One estimate put the number of strikers at 1.2 million while an article in the New York Times claimed between three and six million. The strikes were superficially about economic issues with demands like a freeze on food prices, increases in wages and rations, and the payment of bonuses. But the strikes were also aimed at undermining the fascist state and was organised by participants in the anti-fascist resistance. Major factories in northern Italy, particularly in Milan and Turin, were shut down. There was also significant sabotage of rail and electricity infrastructure by partisan units to coincide with the walkouts while the country’s main newspaper, Corriere della Sera, was unable to publish for three days due to the printers' strike. The repression of the strike was extremely harsh with many workers even being deported to concentration camps in Germany. But the strike was a major blow to Italy's Nazi-backed fascist regime and, by the following year, it had been brought down. Learn more about the Italian resistance to fascism in our podcast episodes 77-80: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History

The Strike That Shook Nazi-Occupied Italy

On this day, 1 March 1944, a series of coordinated general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy. One estimate put the number of strikers at 1.2 million while an article in the New York Times claimed between three and six million. The str

#OtD 1 Mar 1976 8000 Anheuser-Busch workers, who bottled beers like Budweiser, Busch and Michelob, at 9 breweries went on strike and picketed out other workers. After 14 weeks they won pay increases of $2.25 per hour plus $0.40 per hour in benefits stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8116...

UE Solidarity Mural Restoration Nears Completion - Labor Heritage Foundation The historic UE Solidarity Mural—once the centerpiece of the United Electrical Workers’ Chicago hall—is nearing full restoration, according to union leaders and the original artists.Created in 1974 by John Pittman Weber and Jose Guerrero, the mural -- long been associated with UE’s history and i

UE Solidarity Mural Restoration Nears Completion

After @ueunion.org sold its longtime Chicago headquarters, major sections were carefully removed and preserved. Now the restoration is nearly complete.

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#art #LaborArt #ArtSky #Mural #LaborHistory

LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future. NOTE: This is one of the films in the running for both the 2026 Labor Oscar and inclusion in the 2026 D.C. Labor

LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Orwell 2+2=5

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#Film #FilmSky #movies

Despite the odds, workers at Utah’s first library union win contract - Labor Heritage Foundation When workers at Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL) announced their unionization efforts with AFSCME Local 1004 in April 2023, they never anticipated that the road to success would be fraught with so many challenges.Fortunately, they were determined to perse

Workers at Utah’s first library union win contract: When workers at Salt Lake City Public Library announced their unionization efforts they never anticipated that the road to success would be fraught with so many challenges.

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#SLC #Library @afscme.bsky.social

PICKET SIGN OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation The News Guild Of New York outside Pro Publica headquarters in NYC with Pro Publica Guildmembers.

PICKET SIGN OF THE WEEK

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Labor Notes Registration Closes Early — Wait List Now Open - Labor Heritage Foundation Registration has officially closed for this year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, June 12–14 — the earliest the gathering has ever filled to capacity. The conference, which also hosts this year’s Great Labor Arts Exchange, reached its limit weeks ahead of schedule.Org

Labor Notes Registration Closes Early — Wait List Now Open

Registration has officially closed for this year’s @LaborNotes Conference in Chicago — the earliest the gathering has ever filled to capacity

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#LaborNotes #GLAE

LABOR LANDMARK OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation Loray Mill Strike historical marker: The 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, NC, drew national attention and deadly violence, becoming a pivotal and contested chapter in Southern labor history.Thanks to James Benton for submitting this site to LHF’s new Labor Landmark Map. Got labor landma

LABOR LANDMARK OF THE WEEK

The Loray Mill Strike historical marker

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#LaborHistory #RoadTrip #RoadTrippin

Hearst Magazines Union Ratifies New Contract - Labor Heritage Foundation Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) members at Hearst Magazines have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement.This victory came after members delivered a strike pledge signed by more than 85% of the unit and participated in walkouts and rallies calling for a fair

Hearst Magazines Union Ratifies New Contract:

@wgaeast.bsky.social members at Hearst Magazines have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement.

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#UnionStrong #1u

LABOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation One Hundred Years of Black Workers Telling the Truth: “The federal government responded with tactics of targeted censorship—surveillance, harassment and threats of prosecution—and branded a small Black labor magazine ‘the most dangerous’ publication in the country simply for encouraging Black wo

LABOR QUORE OF THE WEEK

“The federal government responded with tactics of targeted censorship—surveillance, harassment and threats of prosecution—and branded a small Black labor magazine..."

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#1stAmendment #1a #FreePress

THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR - Labor Heritage Foundation Goliath at Sunset, Comrades in ArmsOn this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: former shipyard welder and activist Jonathan Brandow talks about his new novel Goliath at Sunset, inspired by rank-and-file organizing and multiracial solidarity in the 1970s Boston shipyards. Plus, the DC Labor Chorus

THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR

Jonathan Brandow talks about his new novel Goliath at Sunset, the DC Labor Chorus in “Highly Visible”, David Correia’s favorite labor song and more!

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IWW Whatcom-Skagit Branch Re-Launches Film Series - Labor Heritage Foundation The Whatcom and Skagit County branch of the Industrial Workers of the World has launched its 2026 film screening series at The Karate Church in Bellingham, Washington. Branch Secretary Dave Tucker tells us the Branch has presented community film screenings for years, but they were put on hiatus du

IWW Whatcom-Skagit Branch Re-Launches Film Series

The Whatcom and Skagit County branch of the Industrial Workers of the World has launched its 2026 film screening series at The Karate Church in Bellingham, Washington.

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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY: 2/27/2026 - Labor Heritage Foundation 1875: Legendary labor leader and socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs becomes charter member and secretary of the Vigo Lodge, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Five years later he is leading the national union and in 1893 helps found the nation’s first industrial union, the America

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY:

Debs becomes a member of the Vigo Lodge, John Steinbeck is born, Woolworth’s workers and customers occupy a store.

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#OTD #LaborHistory

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Steinbeck in 1939, wearing a t-shirt and blazer, and sporting a thin mustache. By McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited - Photoplay, November 1939 (page 22)Photograph is flipped horizontally for magazine publication, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105375118

Today in #LaborHistory 2/27/1902: John Steinbeck was born. #workingclass #novels about #union & #strike actions, incl Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice & Men, East of Eden. Bullied by #FBI & #IRS for #communism. Won #Nobel & #Pulitzer.

If sitdown strikes changed anything, they'd be illegal... #OtD 27 Feb 1939 the US Supreme Court ruled that sitdown strikes were illegal after years of successful working-class direct action using that tactic stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7378...

A Brick and a Bible (MO) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation A New Play by Kathryn Bentley and Colin McLaughlin

This weekend's run of A Brick And A Bible starts TONIGHT in #StLouis #Missouri.

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#STL

The Inquisitor (Virtual) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation Celebrate Black History Month with a free online screening of the new documentary about the life of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

TONIGHT: Celebrate Black History Month with a free online screening of The Inquisitor!

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#Film #FilmSky #BlackHistoryMonth

Starting soon: Labor Heritage Power Hour at 1p on WPFW IN #WashingtonDC - Jonathan Brandow, the DC Labor Chorus, labor songs, and more. Tune in now and stay with us. 🎧 #LaborRadioPod

Today at 1p on the Labor Heritage Power Hour on @wpfwfm: hear Jonathan Brandow on shipyard organizing, the DC Labor Chorus in “Highly Visible,” and David Correia’s favorite labor song. Tune in and turn it up. ✊🎶 #UnionStrong

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Coming up on The Labor Heritage Power Hour at 1p on WPFW in #WashingtonDC:

Former shipyard welder Jonathan Brandow on rank-and-file organizing and multiracial solidarity in Goliath at Sunset. Plus the DC Labor Chorus and more. Don’t miss it. 🎧

#LaborRadioPod