Virginia labor celebrated Ralph Northam’s gubernatorial victory Tuesday night, after hundreds of union volunteers knocked on tens of thousands of doors throughout the Commonwealth. “Virginia’s voters turned out in record numbers to stand with working people and reject the hateful, divisive rhetoric that has taken over the airwaves,” said Doris Crouse-Mays, President of the Virginia AFL-CIO. Virginians voted for change by flipping control in at least 15 house districts, including the 31st, where AFSCME member Elizabeth Guzman unseated a long-time incumbent.
On this weekend's labor calendar, the Films Across Borders series continues on Saturday with a screening of "Pelle the Conqueror" at noon at the AFI in Silver Spring; details at dclabor.org, click on calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1933, a sit-down strike began at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Independent Union of All Workers. Labor historians believe this may have been the first sit-down strike of the 1930s. Workers held the plant for three days, demanding a wage increase. Some 400 men crashed through the plant entrance and chased out nonunion workers. Today’s labor quote is by strikers at the Hormel plant in 1933, who rushed through the doors of a conference room where Jay Hormel and five company executives were meeting and declared: “We’re taking possession. So move out.” Within four days the company agreed to binding arbitration.
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