Labor Symbols
The color most associated with the labor movement.
What is red?
He wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels?
Who was Karl Marx?
The city where workers demanded an 8-hour day in 1886, leading to the Haymarket massacre?
This New Deal law first guaranteed the workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act of 1935?
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, this industry was the center of Idaho’s biggest labor struggles.
What is the mining industry?
The hand gesture used to symbolize worker solidarity.
What is a raised clenched fist?
She was known as “Mother Jones,” the grandmotherly but militant labor organizer and schoolteacher.
Who was Mary G. Harris Jones?
The Pullman Strike was led by workers in this industry.
What is the railroad industry?
This federal agency oversees union elections and is tasked with protecting workers’ organizing rights.
What is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
Workers began to unionize in several stores of this Idaho-based grocery chain in 2022?
The day when International Workers' Day is celebrated around the world.
What is May 1st or May Day?
This Chicano public leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers organized grape boycotts in the 1960s.
Who was César Chávez?
The 1968 Memphis strike was led by these public servants.
What are sanitation workers?
This law first established the minimum wage and overtime protections.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?
This Idaho university's chapter of the American Federation of Teachers ruled in September 2022 that student workers can now join the teachers’ union.
What is Boise State University?
The famous anthem of the labor movement, often sung on the picket line.
What is "Solidarity Forever?"
This teacher co-founded the United Farm Workers with César Chávez and Gilbert Padilla and is still alive today.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This union staged the sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan in the 1930s?
What is the UAW?
Idaho is a "right-to-work" state, meaning that this kind of union security agreement is illegal.
What is a closed shop?
Also called the Wobblies, this major union was deeply involved in Idaho’s mining labor battles.
What was the Industrial Workers of the World?
This Idaho labor union's national affiliate, the largest labor union in the world, encourages its members and supporters to wear #RedForEd to advocate for public schools.
What is the Idaho Education Association?
This African American labor leader founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Who was A. Philip Randolph?
Ronald Reagan famously crushed this strike in 1981
What was the Air Traffic Controllers Strike or PATCO Strike?
This year was the last time the federal minimum wage was raised in the United States.
When was 2009?
Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg was assassinated by Harry Orchard in 1905 in this Treasure Valley city, spurring a nationally publicized trial in Boise that sought to implicate Western Federation of Miners labor leaders.
What is Caldwell?