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Inside the Labor Grammys: Joe Hill – Still Alive As You and Me

Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden

LHF shop feature: Charlie King

Musical storyteller and political satirist Charlie King sings and writes passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. A founding member of AFM Local 1000, the North American Traveling Musicians’ Union, Charlie is also a member of IU 630, Industrial Workers of the World, and has been singing for labor at conferences, rallies and picket lines since 1970. Find out more in the LHF shop, where you’ll also find LHF swag and more!

At Wednesday’s “Keep DOGE Out of DOL” Rally; photo by Chris Garlock

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CLICK HERE for a just-updated compilation of all our labor videos over the last 18 months, collected in one place for your viewing – and sharing – pleasure!

"When the People United" REMIX – David Rovics

A dreamy rendition of a song which is itself a dream.

"We're seeing that the little guy can win. The worker can win."

UAW Local 163 member; UAW members at Detroit Axle just won a new contract that secures profit-sharing and COLA for the first time ever at the company.

The Striking Objects exhibit at the National Museum of Asian Art is about a different kind of strike, the technique of hammering employed on contemporary Japanese metalwork, which requires immense labor and heat. It’s a small show, worth a look, on view now in Gallery 22 of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. - CG

CLICK HERE for our complete labor arts calendar; look for our Labor Arts Calendar edition on Monday

WEEKEND LABOR ARTS CALENDAR

Friday & Sunday: The Garbologists (Washington, DC)

Ongoing:

Historic photographs of Yakima Valley farmworkers (Yakima, WA)

Gospel of the Working Class: Exhibition (Chattanooga, TN)

February 7, 1894

Union miners in Cripple Creek, CO begin what is to become a five-month strike that started when mineowners cut wages to $2.50 a day, from $3. The state militia was called out in support of the strikers – the only time in U.S. history that a militia was directed to side with the workers. The strike ended in victory for the union.

On this week’s Labor History Today: The 1917 “Bath Riots”. The story of Carmelita Torres, the "Latina Rosa Parks," and the so-called “Bath Riots” on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1917. On Labor History in Two: auto workers sit down and Black students sit in.  

LAST WEEK’S QUIZ: Ida M. Fuller was the first retiree to receive an old-age monthly benefit check under the new Social Security law on January 31, 1940. She paid in $24.75 between 1937 and 1939 on an income of $2,484; her first check was for $22.54.

Power At Work awards first-ever Labor Grammys (1/31) Is ‘Severance’ a show about unions? (1/24)

SAG-AFTRA donates $1 million for LA fires relief (1/17)

Tabitha Arnold’s Gospel of the Working Class (1/10)

Get ready to choose the 2025 Labor Grammy winners! (1/3)

Picket signs from the Amazon & Starbucks strikes! (12/20)

The Kaos of class struggle on Netflix (12/13)

Cliff Divers & Whiteboard Geeks unionize (12/6)

Carsie Blanton on “Rich People” (11/22)