This Week's Quiz: This 1920 shootout in the town of Matewan (known as the Battle of Matewan and immortalized in the 1987 John Sayles movie) between local miners and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency took place in which state? Utah; Colorado; Virginia; West Virginia; Pennsylvania. Click here and you could be next week's winner of a labor-themed prize! Previous Quiz: Jack Nicholson portrayed former International Brotherhood of Teamsters leader James R. Hoffa in the 1992 movie "Hoffa." Congrats to Richard Malloy, IBEW Local 38, Cleveland, OH, this week's quiz winner!
New deputy mayor tells DCPS teachers she hopes to work ‘side by side’: Jennifer Niles, the District’s new deputy mayor for education, told a group of D.C. Public School teachers Saturday that she is ready to stand “side by side” with them to improve opportunities for all students, during a conference organized by the Washington Teachers Union. photo courtesy WTU Facebook page. - The Washington Post, February 21 Vineeta Anand’s Dal Makhani recipe: Vineeta Anand, a financial researcher for the AFL-CIO, spent the snow day Saturday cooking Dal Makhani from her native India, where she was snowbound three months of the year. - The Washington Post, February 21 |