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Today in Labor History

November 29  --  SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

Clerks, teamsters and building service workers at Boston Stores in Milwaukee strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. The strike won widespread support -- at one point 10,000 pickets jammed the sidewalks around the main store -- but ultimately was lost. Workers returned to the job in mid-January with a small pay raise and no union recognition - 1934

National Labor Relations Board rules that medical interns can unionize and negotiate wages and hours - 1999

Working Class Heroes shared a link via Union Review.

#SOLIDARITY! from our friends #Union Review & @SMSpringer: Stand with ALL #workers! Fast food, textile, retail - #1U

Drive to Unionize Fast-Food Workers Opens in N.Y.

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Labor experts said the campaign, named Fast Food Forward, faced a daunting challenge in seeking to raise wages to $15 an hour.

More than 1000 workers at 'Boston Stores' in Milwaukee went on strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. Slowly the strike built widespread support with as many as 10,000 pickets on sidewalks during one weekend gathering. Surviving the sales season however, the company outlasted the union and resolved in January - without Union recognition!

"Their vigorous picketing utterly ruined the store's Christmas trade. Its officials admitted a drop of 30 per cent in sales from the same period of last year-this at a time when other Milwaukee stores were piling up huge increases over last year." - from http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na3449.htm

"The strike is a united effort of three unions, including clerks, teamsters & building-service employees." - https://www.facebook.com/notes/working-class-heroes/the-daily-bleed-httpwwweskimocomrecallbleed1129htm/193639120722371

Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere

While taking a walk in San Dimas I may have stumbled across the last mailbox in town?

The Mailbox That Vanished - Joseph Mailander

Journalism as service: Lessons from Sandy - Jeff Jarvis

2012 layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers - Paper Cuts

Will this marketing design sell advertising? - Gannett Blog

Labor’s Message Gap and the Art of Politics - Frying Pan News

LA Times pulled the story and their “the headline must not - Romenesko

Washington Times is readying itself for staff reductions - Washington Post

As Editorial Walls Crumble, Advertisers Rush In - Newspaper Death Watch

KKLA-FM Host Frank Pastore Shared Prophetic Observation - Fishbowl LA

Warren Buffett and Abramson don’t see print newspapers going away - Romenesko

Today in Labor History

November 28  -- SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

William Sylvis, founder of the National Labor Union, born - 1828
National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, precursor to IBEW, founded - 1891

154 men die in a coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pa.  Engineer and General Superintendent A.C. Beeson tells the local newspaper he had been in the mine a few minutes before the blast and had found it to be in perfect condition - 1908

Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - 1953

Bruce Jingles in Claremont this Friday and Saturday

Bruce Jingles will be performing at Flapper's Comedy Club in Claremont this Friday and Saturday. Follow the link to Flapper's for show times, he's doing two shows each night. Bruce's popularity has grown over the year's so to see him in such an intimate club is a treat in itself. Watch the video below for a taste of what to expect this coming weekend.

Who stands to gain if there are no Unions?

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Today in Labor History

November 27  --  

1,200 workers sit down at Midland Steel, forcing recognition of the United Auto Workers, Detroit - 1936

The pro-labor musical revue, “Pins & Needles,” opens on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members. The show ran on Friday and Saturday nights only, because of the casts’ regular jobs. It ran for 1,108 performances before closing - 1937

(Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films About Labor is an encyclopedic guide to 350 labor films from around the world, ranging from those you’ve heard of -- Salt of the Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, Roger & Me -- to those you’ve never heard of but will fall in love with once you see them. Zaniello describes all the films in detail, tells you whether they’re available for rental or purchase, and, if so, where. Fiction and nonfiction, the films are about unions, labor history, working-class life, political movements, and the struggle between labor and capital.)

Working Class Heroes shared Sarah Springer's photo.

#LaborHistory #SOLIDARITY! from our friend @SMSpringer & us: "The participants, all ILGWU members, rehearsed in the evenings and on weekends when they had time off. The first production was expanded when word of mouth excitement over the production brought hundreds of expectant and non-ILGWU members to the revue. The show was moved to the Labor Stage Theater and opened officially on November 27, 1937." - from http://www.workingclassheroes.me/?p=264

 

Today in labor history, November 27, 1937: The musical revue, "Pins & Needles," opens on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union members. The show –- a “lighthearted look at young workers in a changing society in the middle of America’s most politically engaged city” -- ran on Friday and Saturday nights only, because of the casts' regular jobs. It ran for 1,108 performances before closing.

 

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Today in Labor History

November 26 -- SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door from which the women could flee was locked - 1910

Working Class Heroes

Today in #LaborHistory: Nov 26, 1910 -via- 'Rip and Ron'

Twenty six, mostly young women, died in a fire in a four-story "factory" building in Newark, NJ. Floors and staircases were made of wood; the building housed several businesses. The door to the fourth floor was locked behind the workers - many perished jumping from the flames.

"This is the site where, four months before the Triangle fire, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 1910, another sweatshop burst into flames, killing more than two dozen women and girls." - from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/nyregion/24towns.html?_r=0
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" He was shown the bodies in the Morgue, but was uncertain about them. Finally his youngest daughter was sent for and finally identified positively the bodies of all three of her sisters. They were DORA, 26; TILLIE, 20; and, MINNIE, 18." - from http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-jersey/17199/newark-nj-factory-fire-disaster-nov-1910?page=0%2C1

"The building was clear from other buildings on all four sides; there was a fire-engine across the street, and a truck and ladder around the corner. Yet six girls were burned to death, and nineteen died as a result of leaping to the pavement from the fourth-story windows." - from http://www.oldnewark.com/histories/factoryfire01.htm

 

 

 

 

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Los Angeles reggae radio personality, Chuck Foster, welcomes Jahmark of Jahmark & the Soulshakers as his guest this coming Sunday, Nov. 25th, on his radio program "Reggae Central" 2-4pm. Jahmark appears from 2:30-2:55pm and will be speaking about his recently released double album, "2012: BOOK OF REDEMPTION". Of course Chuck will be spinning some of the killer tracks from off the album so be sure to tune in to this Soulshakin' event!

Broadcast Union News: A Day of Decision for NY Times Newspaper Guild Members

Broadcast Union News: A Day of Decision for NY Times Newspaper Guild Members:

The contract, which also combines two employee groups – those of the newspaper and those of its digital operations – under a single unified contract, also fortifies the independent fund that pays employee medical claims with additional company contributions and preserves severance pay for current employees.

Times Guild members listen to brief explanations of the new tentative contract before voting for ratification on Nov. 13. (Photo by Suzanne DeChillo)

The Guild, Local 31003 of the Communications Workers of America, represents 1,100 text, photo, web and video journalists at The Times, along with several other newsroom, advertising and other professional and administrative employees. Overall, the Newspaper Guild of New York represents some 2,800 employees, mostly at New York-based news organizations, including Thomson Reuters, Consumer Reports, Time Inc., Standard & Poor’s The Nation, WPIX, Scholastic, Amsterdam News, and El Diario.

CONTACT: Bill O’Meara – 212-575-1580

I'm Standing With Hostess Workers, Will You?

I'm Standing With Hostess Workers, Will You?

Wall street vultures are blaming workers for getting rid of your sweets-and that's just not right.

What's happening here is a classic Bain Capital-style assault-blame the little guy to cover the greedy corporate policies that are gutting the middle class.

It's not just happening to the workers who make the great products Americans love. What's happening at Hostess is happening to workers all over this country. It's wrong. And it has to stop.

Hostess workers believe in their company, and we need to stand with them -- sign our pledge to support workers, not greedy CEOs who will cut and run for a quick buck.
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Today in Labor History

November 21 -- SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Six miners striking for better working conditions under the IWW banner were killed and many wounded in the Columbine Massacre at Lafayette, Colo. Out of this struggle Colorado coal miners gained lasting union contracts - 1927

The 1,700-mile Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed, built during World War II on the order of President Roosevelt. Some 11,000 troops, about one-third of them African-Americans, worked on the project, which claimed the lives of an estimated 30 men. Memorials for the veterans are scattered in spots throughout the highway, including the Black Veterans Memorial Bridge, dedicated in 1993. It wasn’t until 1948 that the military was desegregated - 1942

The United Auto Workers Union strikes 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30 percent raise. 200,000 workers are out - 1945

Staten Island and Brooklyn are linked by the new Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time and still the longest in the U.S. Joseph Farrell, an apprentice Ironworker on the project, told radio station WNYC: "The way the wind blows over this water it would blow you right off the iron. That was to me and still is the most treacherous part of this business. When the wind grabs you on the open iron, it can be very dangerous." Three workers died over the course of the five year project - 1964

The promise of telecommuting arrives when the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network -- ARPANET, the beginnings of the global internet -- is established when a permanent link is created between the University of California at Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. - 1969

A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas kills 85 hotel employees and guests and sends 650 injured persons, including 14 firefighters, to the hospital. Most of the deaths and injuries were caused by smoke inhalation - 1980

Flight attendants celebrate the signing into law a smoking ban on all U.S. domestic flights - 1989

Congress approves the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), to take effect Jan. 1 of the following year - 1993
(NAFTA From Below: Workers in the United States have long understood that NAFTA has been a disaster, with more than two million jobs leaving the country for lower-wage countries following the law’s passage in 1994. But relatively few Americans know what a nightmare NAFTA has been for Mexican workers – the people who, the agreement’s proponents argued, would be lifted from poverty and be turned into serious consumers of American goods.)

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act takes effect in the nation’s workplaces. It prohibits employers from requesting genetic testing or considering someone’s genetic background in hiring, firing or promotions - 2009

Today in Labor History

November 19 -- SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Joe Hill, labor leader and song writer, executed in Utah on what many believe was a framed charge of murder. Before he died he declared: “Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize.” - 1915

The nation’s first automatic toll collection machine is used at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway - 1954

The National Writers Union is founded, representing freelance and contract writers and others in the trade. In 1992 it was to merge into and become a local of the United Auto Workers - 1981

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Hostess' Mismanagement

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While Hostess management wants to blame BCTGM International Union members for its demise, the truth is that had it not been for the valiant efforts of BCTGM members over the last 8 years, including accepting significant wage and benefit concessions after the first bankruptcy, this company would have gone out of business long ago.

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Media guessing game: Who will buy the L.A. Times? | tribune, times, media - Business - The Orange County Register

Media guessing game: Who will buy the L.A. Times? | tribune, times, media - Business - The Orange County Register

TONIGHT - Alice in Cooperland

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L.A. Times Wins $266K From Photographer David Strick

L.A. Times Wins $266K From Photographer David Strick

Today in labor history

November 12 - SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

Ellis Island in New York closes after serving as the gateway for 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1924. From 1924 to 1954 it was mostly used as a detention and deportation center for undocumented immigrants - 1954

(A People’s History of the United States: If your last serious read of American history was in high school -- or even in a standard college course -- you’ll want to read this amazing account of America as seen through the eyes of its working people, women and minorities. Howard Zinn, a widely respected Boston University professor, turns history on its head with his carefully researched and dramatic recounting of America and its people -- not just its bankers, industrialists, generals and politicians.)

“Chainsaw Al” Dunlap announces he is restructuring the Sunbeam Corp. and lays off 6,000 workers -- half the workforce. Sunbeam later nearly collapsed after a series of scandals under Dunlap’s leadership that cost investors billions of dollars - 1996

Working Class Heroes

Today in #LaborHistory: Nov 12, 1815 -via- 'Rip & Ron'

Women's rights and suffrage campaigner Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was born. She spent her adult lifetime working for those things, often hand-in-hand with Susan B Anthony, and did NOT live long enough to see the ultimate victory of women voting.

"Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader in 19th century activism for women's suffrage; Stanton often worked with Susan B. Anthony as the theorist and writer while Anthony was the public spokesperson." - from http://womenshistory.about.com/od/stantonelizabeth/a/stanton.htm
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"Almost thirty years after the Seneca Falls Convention, Stanton and Gage authored the Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States, which Anthony presented, uninvited, at the Centennial celebration in Washington in 1876." - from http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm

"On her own authority, Stanton added another, which she placed in the ninth spot. It read, “Resolved: That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” - from http://www.workingclassheroes.me/?p=1560

An inter-active site at http://www.elizabethcadystanton.org/

Another video/your choice at http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

Want to know which foods have genetically engineered ingredients? Tell the FDA you want #GMO food labeling @justlabelit

Want to know which foods have genetically engineered ingredients? Tell the FDA you want #GMO food labeling @justlabelit

Tuesday Afternoon in the Blogosphere

Union Organizer Marty Keegan outside the Los Angeles Times Oly Facility

Newspapers Lower Paywalls for Election - Adweek

Today’s 6 most creative election front pages - Poynter

Times they are a changin' for newspapers - Headline Surfer

Daily Newspapers Can Be Hazardous to Your Health - TheStreet

FCC appears likely to ease media-ownership rules - Los Angeles Times

Former carrier charged in newspaper theft case - Point Pleasant Register

Is it time for newspapers to butt out of the voting booth? - Editorsweblog

Misinformation Flourished During Superstorm - Newspaper Death Watch

New York Times will drop its paywall for the third time - Andrew Beaujon

News Corp. executive sidesteps rumors about plans to acquire more - Capital

Today in Labor History

Today in labor history for the week of November 5, 2012

November 05

Eugene V. Debs - labor leader, socialist, three-time candidate for president and first president of the American Railway Union, born - 1855

Everett, Wash., massacre, at least seven Wobblies killed, 50 wounded and an indeterminate number missing - 1916

Some 12,000 television and movie writers begin what was to become a
three-month strike against producers over demands for an increase in pay for movies and television shows released on DVD and for a bigger share of the revenue from work delivered over the Internet - 2007
(Strikes, Picketing and Inside Campaigns: A Legal Guide: This book is a must-have for any union or activist considering aggressive action to combat management’s growing economic war against workers. With a deep understanding of the complex web of rules regulating forceful work-related activities, noted labor attorney and author Robert Schwartz offers examples of what unions can do, pointers on how to do it legally, picketing instructions, sample letters, and answers to scores of common questions. In the UCS Bookstore now.)

November 06

A coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pa. kills 79. The mine had been rated gaseous in 1918, but at the insistence of new operators it was rated as non-gaseous even though miners had been burned by gas on at least four occasions - 1922

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