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Happy holidays!

12/22/2017

 
Union City will be hiatus over the holidays, returning Monday, January 8. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for breaking news updates. Safe and Happy Holidays to all!

National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrates workers

12/22/2017

 
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The idea for “The Sweat of Their Face,” an exhibition currently up at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, came from a plumber. When Dorothy Moss, the museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, was researching her graduate dissertation, she found news accounts from 1897 about a plumber who visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a break but was asked to leave because he was wearing overalls. Thinking of the plumber, Ms. Moss became interested in one of the central questions of museums: Whom are they for? “The Sweat of Their Face,” which she curated with the museum’s senior historian, David C. Ward, tries to address that question. Consisting of more than 75 portrayals of American laborers from the 18th century through today, the gallery opened in November as part of the museum’s 50th anniversary celebration.
- adapted from Noah Weiland’s report in The New York Times; photo credit Ted Eytan

Bowling for Gold coming up next month

12/22/2017

 
Join Teamsters 639, Operating Engineers 99, Washington Teachers Union Local 6, IBEW 1900 and more labor friends who have already signed up their teams for the 26th annual bowling tournament sponsored by the Community Services Agency to benefit the Emergency Assistance Fund. Sunday January 28, 2018, Crofton Bowling Center, $25 per person/$125 team of 5. Email [email protected] or [email protected] for info, or click here for the registration form.

Labor Quote of the Day: Woody Guthrie

12/22/2017

 
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“I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.”

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