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Friday, November 28, 2014

11/28/2014

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News: Standing with the brave Walmart workers who are going on strike today on Black Friday is easy, and it’s important...Today’s labor history: On this date in 1953, some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, and supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, began what was to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers...Labor quote by Roger Baldwin: “Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below."
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

11/27/2014

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News: The nation’s largest guide for savvy buyers who want to shop union is expanding to the nation’s capital. Labor 411 last week launched its Washington, DC online edition at labor411.org...Today’s labor history: in 1937, the pro-labor musical revue, “Pins & Needles,” opened on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members...Today’s labor quote by Congresman William Clay: “If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat's food.”
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

11/26/2014

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News: At hundreds of Black Friday actions this Friday – including five in the metro DC area --  activists will be out in force..You can show your gratitude and support for union members this Thanksgiving by preparing and serving a union-made holiday dinner...Today’s labor history: in 1910, six young women burned to death and 19 more died when they leapt from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, New Jersey...Labor quote by Saul Alinsky: “I tell people the hell with charity, the only thing you'll get is what you're strong enough to get."
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

11/25/2014

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News: In the end, victory for workers at Tito Construction came quickly...There’s more interest in food these days than ever, but what about the hands that pick it? The new film “Food Chains” reveals the ongoing struggle for justice in our nation’s fields...Today’s labor history: On this date in 1883, some 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, participated in a solidarity parade...Today’s labor quote by John L. Lewis: “No tin hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes"...
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