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EDITOR’S NOTE: Five labor arts events this Saturday alone, four award-winning labor history reports by students…it’s a great week for labor arts and history! Plus, if you’re in the DC area, don’t miss our screening of “Love & Solidarity” next Tuesday night at the Takoma Busboys, in honor of the late great Rev. James Lawson. Got labor art and culture happening in your town? Let us know at info@laborheritage.org!
Chris Garlock
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Equity Goes on Strike Against Developmental Work
Actors’ Equity Association (Equity), the union representing professional actors and stage managers in live theater, will cease issuing contracts for work on the Development Agreement. “We never wanted it to come to this,” said Equity Negotiating Team Chair Stephen Bogardus in a press release, “but the wage package put across the table by The Broadway League was just plain unacceptable. Our members cannot afford to work on this contract at the proposed compensation levels over the next five years.”
- AFL-CIO Daily Brief
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National History Day contest features labor history
Four of the winning entries in this year’s National History Day contest had a labor focus, reports Mark Pattison. From Nashua-Plainfield Junior-Senior High School in Charles City, IA, Ava Kirk and Elexa O'Neill were first-place winners for “Point, Click, Shoot: Lewis Hine’s Photographs Create a Turning Point for Child Labor”. Chana Oden, Kayla DeBlois, Morgan Walker, and Nevaeh Dowell from Ola Middle School in McDonough, GA won for their report on “The Washerwomen Strike of 1881”. From Sierra Vista Middle School in Irvine, CA, Henry Wiechmann won for his report on “East L.A. Walkouts: Launching a Movement.” And Sami Stanley from Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls, SD, won for “’Sí, Se Puede!’: How Dolores Huerta and César Chávez Sparked a Turning Point in the Rights of Migrant Farm Workers.” The contest is designed to help students develop skills in communication, project management, and historical thinking; the complete winner’s list is here.
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Our Theme Song Contest! On this week's show: Elise and Chris play some listener suggestions for the show’s new theme song. Plus: the Oregon AFL-CIO’s new mural, the story behind Joe Uehlein’s song “Hands”, a reading from “Presente: A Dockworker’s Story” and, on Labor History in 2:00, the UAW wins a first contract at Ford.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour, hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant, airs every Thursday at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
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Now THIS is what solidarity looks like: @IBEW @OSEA6732 and @OFNHP members walking the line with striking @OregonNurses members at Providence St. Vincent in Portland! - Oregon AFL-CIO
GOT PICKET SIGN? Email us at info@laborheritage.org
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Love & Solidarity, an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Screens next Tuesday; free tickets here.
GOT LABOR VIDEO? Email us at info@laborheritage.org
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“If you put some effort into how things look, it really can change and carry the message better…Have fun with it, make it look cool, and that will help carry your message through.” Oregon State Fed Comms Director Russell Sanders, on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show. | |
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CLICK HERE for our complete labor arts calendar; look for our Labor Arts Calendar edition on Monday
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
Detroit Labor History Bus Tour
Saturday, June 22, 1:00 PM ET, Operating Engineers 324 Stationary Engineer Education Center, 1550 Howard St, Detroit, MI
"Fight Like Hell": Kim Kelly addresses the Michigan Labor History Society Annual Meeting
Saturday, June 22, 4:00 PM ET, Operating Engineers Education Center, 1550 Howard Street, Detroit, MI
Fruit of Labor Birthday/Juneteenth Celebration
Saturday, June 22, 4:00 PM ET, Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center, 4200 Lake Ridge Drive, Raleigh, NC
“The Last Pullman Car” screening
Saturday, June 22, 2024, 4:30 PM ET, HPF Pullman Exhibit Hall, 11141 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, IL
Elise Bryant: "Queen of the Night"
Saturday, June 22, 7:00 PM, 421 W Jefferson St. Ann Arbor, MI
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
FILM: Love & Solidarity
Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 7:00 PM ET, Busboys & Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll Street NW, Washington, DC.
ONGOING
1934 & Now, Connections of the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934: ART EXHIBITION
We Are One – Honoring Immigrant Garment Workers
Remember 1934: "Voters in Revolt" art exhibit
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June 21, 1997
100,000 unionists and other supporters march in solidarity with striking Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspaper workers
On this week’s Labor History Today podcast: The People, No
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LAST WEEK’S QUIZ: Twenty drag queen performers at Spokane’s Globe Bar and Kitchen walked off the job on June 21, 2021 in a protest over wages and conditions. In fact there weren’t any wages: performers’ only income was whatever tips they were able to collect. | |
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"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
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