WHAT WE'RE READING - Tourists See a Luxury Hotel. We See Labor History and a City That Protects Work - Labor Heritage Foundation "As the clock struck noon on May 7, 1912, the servers at the Belmont Hotel had finally had enough.In the dining room, a waiter stood up and blew his whistle: the signal for hundreds of workers to walk off their jobs and out into the streets of Midtown Manhattan. Over the next month, thousands

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Tourists See a Luxury Hotel. We See Labor History and a City That Protects Work

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#LaborHistory #HotelLife #HospitalityLife #HotelStaff #HotelCulture

I’m proud to be a redneck.

“Remember Blair Mountain” is streaming everywhere next Friday.

#Redneck #WestVirginia #WV #MineWars #BlairMountain #Appalachia #LaborHistory #UnionStrong #Folk #ProtestSong #NoKings

The Power of Working Women: 50 Years of Labor, Art, and Organizing (DC) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation As part of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of the Metro DC Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), this day-long summit centers labor history, cultural expression, and organizing as inseparable forces for change.

TOMORROW at 9:00 AM Eastern in #WashingtonDC

The Power of Working Women: 50 Years of Labor, Art, and Organizing

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#WomensHistoryMonth #LaborHistory

LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK - Remembering Triangle - Labor Heritage Foundation On the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, America’s unions mourn the 146 lives lost on that tragic day, many of whom were immigrant women. More than a century later, the labor movement is continuing the fight to protect all workers’ safety on the job. [image or embed]

LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK - Remembering Triangle

"America’s unions mourn the 146 lives lost on that tragic day, many of whom were immigrant women."

Find out more and watch the video at tinyurl.com/cz5u5vn2

#LaborHistory #NeverAgain #TriangleFire

A clean-up crew working to remove radioactive contamination at Three Mile Island. By John G. Kemeny et al - Report of The President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island: The Need for Change: The Legacy of TMI, p. 140, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7691771

Today in #LaborHistory 3/28/1979: #ThreeMileIsland #nuclear power plant, #Pennsylvania, had partial meltdown. Worst nuclear power accident in US history. Peer-reviewed study by Dr. Steven Wing found large incr in #cancer from 1979-1985 among residents. 2024 #BillGates bought plant for his #AI farms

“Sanitation workers on strike; at Atlanta City Hall a protester is dragged away, Atlanta, Georgia, April 12, 1977.” Photo by Billy Downs. AJCP309-021L, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy Georgia State University.

Today in #LaborHistory 3/28/1977: #AFSCME #union sanitation workers #strike in #Atlanta, #Georgia. Mayor Jackson, seen by many as a #CivilRights leader, fired >900 workers & crushed the strike, setting stage for #Reagan mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during #PATCO strike, 1981.

While National Guard soldiers held bayonets, nonviolent Memphis sanitation strikers fought for the world to recognize their humanity with signs that read, "I AM A MAN."

Today in #LaborHistory 3/28/1968: #MartinLutherKingJr led a march of striking sanitation workers in #Memphis, Tennessee. #Police attacked them. Shot 16-yr old boy. 280 arrested. #MLK assassinated a few days later. #workingclass #union #strike #racism #assassination #PoliceBrutality #police

THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR - Labor Heritage Foundation On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: High tower crane operator and singer/songwriter Sammy Cossairt talks with poet and master electrician Susan Eisenberg about life in the trades and her new song “TradesWoman”; a Labor Landmarks visit to Seattle’s historic Labor Temple with Conor Casey; pl

THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR

Sammy Cossairt talks about her song “TradesWoman”; a Labor Landmarks visit to #Seattle; plus stories of women-led struggles

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#TN #MI #LaborHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK - Triangle Fire (A Music Video) - Labor Heritage Foundation Triangle Fire (A Music Video) - To Commemorate the Tragic Fire in 1911By Joe DeFilippo and the R.J. Phillips Band.In 1911, a fire in the upper floors of a 10 story garment factory in New York led to the death of 146 people. Owners of the business had chained or locked most of the exits a

LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK

Triangle Fire by Joe DeFilippo and the R.J. Phillips Band

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#LaborHistory #Song #Music #TriangleShirtwaistFire #NeverForget

LABOR LANDMARK OF THE WEEK: United Mine Workers Local 6855 Union Hall - Labor Heritage Foundation The former UMWA Local 6855 hall in Nauvoo, Alabama memorializes miners killed in labor conflict - including violence during the 1920 Alabama Coal Strike - alongside tributes to members lost in mining accidents and military service.Details on the LHF Labor Landmarks Map.

LABOR LANDMARK OF THE WEEK

United Mine Workers Local 6855 Union Hall

Where is it? Find out at tinyurl.com/3y8exjv3

#LaborHistory #Alabama

TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY - Labor Heritage Foundation 1904: Mother Jones ordered to leave Colorado after state authorities accuse her of “stirring up” striking coal miners 1912: IWW Launches strike on Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific Lines2002: U.S. Supreme Court rules undocumented workers don’t have the same rights as Americans when they

TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY

Mother Jones ordered to leave Colorado, IWW Launches a strike, and SCOTUS rules undocumented workers don’t have the same rights as Americans

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#LaborHistory #Colorado #Canada #SCOTUS

September 1897 front page of Freedom. By Freedom Press - http://racinesetbranches.wordpress.com/lexique/freedom-press/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33038466

Today In Labor History March 27, 1993: The London office of the anarchist website and journal, Freedom, was bombed by fascists. Freedom, which started as a newspaper in 1886, was created by volunteers that included Peter Kropotkin.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #fascism #kropotkin #freedom

Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, looking east from near Barrow Street. The southern edge of one of several landslides in Anchorage, this one covered an area of over a dozen blocks, including five blocks along the north side of Fourth Avenue. Most of the area was razed and made an urban renewal district. By U.S. Army - http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Alaska%20Earthquake%20no.%20144, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3901124

Today In #LaborHistory 3/27/1964: 9.2 #earthquake in #Alaska, killed 125. Most powerful ever recorded in North America. #tsunamis wiped out small Alaskan villages, damaged Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii and Japan. Chilean Quake of 1960 (9.5), largest ever recorded #workingclass #hawaii

IWW strikers arrested near Savona in April 1912 during the Northern railway construction strike. They are standing outside, uncuffed, with telephone poles and hills in the background.

Today In #LaborHistory 3/27/1912: #IWW Northern #railroad #strike began in #Canada. >8,000 workers walked off job. Picketed #employment offices in #Vancouver, #Seattle, #SanFrancisco, #Minneapolis to block the hiring of #scabs.
#workingclass #union

Image of Mother Jones, in glasses and bonnet, with the caption "If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout 'Freedom for the working class.'"

Today In #LaborHistory 3/27/1904: #MotherJones deported from #Colorado for organizing #coal #miners #strike. Early March, deported 60 striking miners. Violent assaults by #Pinkerton & Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers killed.
#workingclass #union #mining #scabs #minewars#womenshistorymonth

Man of Steel: The Story of Joe Magarac Joe Magarac was the ultimate steelworker: a steel giant born in an iron mine who sacrificed everything for the mill. Explore the dark reality, corporate myths, and enduring legacy of Pittsburgh’s "Beast of Burden." #USHistory #JoeMagarac #SteelCityHistory #PittsburghFolklore #LaborHistory #MonValley #AmericanFolklore #PGHHistory

Joe Magarac was the ultimate steelworker: a steel giant born in an iron mine who sacrificed everything for the mill. Explore the dark reality, corporate myths, and enduring legacy of Pittsburgh’s "Beast of Burden." #USHistory #JoeMagarac #SteelCityHistory #PittsburghFolklore #LaborHistory #MonValley

#BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - March 26, 2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy

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Crane operator/songwriter Sammy Cossairt on sisterhood in the trades, a #Seattle Labor landmark and women-led strikes from #TN to #MI?

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#LaborHistory #LaborRadioPod #WomensHistoryMonth

🔴 Right now on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:

✊ The 1929 Elizabethton strike and “Big Annie” Clements

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🔴 Right now on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:

🏢 Conor Casey shares a #Seattle Labor Landmark

Next up: ✊ Women-led strikes from #TN to #MI

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🔴 Right now on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:

🎶 Sammy Cossairt on sisterhood in the trades

Next up: 🏢 #Seattle Labor Landmark ✊ Women-led strikes

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Today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: tradeswomen, labor landmarks & women-led strikes

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On today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, 1p ET on WPFW:

🎶 “Tradeswoman” + life 400 feet up in a tower crane
🏛️ #Seattle Labor Temple (Labor Landmark)
✊ Women-led strikes from TN to MI

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Alexander Comfort, M.D., Ph.D. (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000), medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. Shown with long gray hair, and horn rimmed glasses, and a plaid shirt. By http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fRPWA99y8xA/SZGlM1bmy-I/AAAAAAAAAlY/0jCykwCJ-BA/s400/Alex_Comfort.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29697943

Today In Labor History March 26, 2000: British anarchist Alex Comfort died. Comfort was a scientist and a writer. His most well-known work was the nonfiction sex manual, “The Joy of Sex.” #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #AlexComfort #JoyOfSex #sexology #writer #author #books

Cover of Grosser's pamphlet, "Alactraz, Uncle Sam's Devil's Island," with blue cover and sketch of the prison building on Alcatraz island. The pamphlet is laying over a page in Grosser's biography, with a sketch of Grosser, looking straight ahead, clean shaven, in a suit and tie.

Today In #LaborHistory 3/26/1918: American anarchist Philip Grosser wrote about being tortured in #prison at #Alcatraz for #antiwar resistance to #WorldWarOne. #workingclass #anarchism #torture #antiwar #writer #author #books #biography

Frontpage of The Fairmont West Virginian of March 26, 1912: “Eighty-three men entombed in mine.”

Today In Labor History March 26, 1912: A mining disaster at Jed, West Virginia, killed 83 workers.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #workplacesafety #disaster #westvirginia

The pro-eugenics Medical Review of Reviews hired four vagrants to demonstrate on Wall Street in 1915. The picture’s original caption said the signs the men were paid to carry asked “some very pertinent questions.” Some of the signs read, “Would the prisons and asylums be filled if my kind had no children?” and “I can’t read this sign. By what right I have children?”

Today In #LaborHistory 3/26/1910: Congress amended Immigration Act of 1907 to bar “paupers, anarchists, criminals & the diseased.” $5 million gold card anyone? #workingclass #immigration #eugenics #anarchism #racism #xenophobia #ableism #mentalhealth #poverty #prison #poverty #trump

Emile Armand, French individualist anarchist and free love propagandist. By Unknown author - http://www.estelnegre.org/fotos/emilearmand01.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106590721

Today In #LaborHistory 3/26/1872: French individualist anarchist Émile Armand was born. He wrote about and agitated for free love and polyamory, pacifism, and against war and militarism. He wrote for and edited L'Ère nouvelle (1901–1911), L'Anarchie, L'En-Dehors (1922–1939) and L'Unique (1945–1953).

Dust jacket of Looking Backward. By Edward Bellamy - Scan from the original work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22822976

Today In #LaborHistory 3/26/1850: #EdwardBellamy was born. Wrote #utopian #novel “Looking Backward” about society without private property, social classes, war, #poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, taxes. #workingclass #socialism #books #author #writer #fiction

March 25, 1911 – 123 women and girls and 23 men die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City.

Locked doors, designed to prevent workers from taking breaks, prevented people from leaving. It remains the deadliest industrial accident in the United States.

#laborhistory