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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings DC Labor FilmFest: Celebrating 20 Years of Great Labor Films! THE LUNCHROOM: Tickets $5 THE CHAMBERMAID [LA CAMARISTA]; Tickets $5 THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS aka RICHER THAN THE EARTH: Opens today, May 18; 70th Anniversary! – Tickets $5
Prosecutions of wage theft and other employer crimes against workers: Tue, May 18, 3:30pm – 5:30p
Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, May 18, 5pm – 6pm
"Wednesdays with Warner": Wed, May 19, 8:15am – 8:45am Windmill Hill Park, 500 S. Lee St., Alexandria VA
Worker Cooperatives in Spain: Mondragon Corporation: Wed, May 19, 11am – 12pm Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast. ![]() Nurses mourn, and organize ![]() Airport workers demand living wage ![]() UC Radio hits 10K Today's Labor Quote: Big Bill Haywood “For every dollar the boss has and didn’t work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn’t get it.”
A founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, Haywood died in exile in the Soviet Union on this date in 1928. TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview. Last week’s show: Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work
In what may have been baseball’s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers refuse to play after team leader Ty Cobb is suspended: he went into the stands and beat a fan who had been heckling him. Cobb was reinstated and the Tigers went back to work after the team manager’s failed attempt to replace the players with a local college team: their pitcher gave up 24 runs - 1912 Amalgamated Meat Cutters union organizers launch a campaign in the nation’s packinghouses, an effort that was to bring representation to 100,000 workers over the following two years - 1917
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