Union Battles
Women of Labor
Labor Songs and Singers
Events in Labor History
D.R.O. in AZ!
Labor in the Arts
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The struggle that united the Labor and the Civil Rights Movement and led to the death of MLK.
What was the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968?
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Fought for children in the mines and mills.
Who was Mother Jones?
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This song, was inspired by conflict between miners and coal operators in Harlan County, KY
What is "Which Side Are You On?" by Florence Reece
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A tragedy in New York City in 1911.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
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The current President and Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU.
Who are April Verrett and Rocío Sáenz?
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This cartoon icon has come to represent women in the trades/workplace
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
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In 1981, all of these striking government employees were fired and banned from federal service for life.
Who were the air traffic controllers?
Their union was PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization).
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Leader in the struggle to free the Chicago Haymarket martyrs and establish the 8 hour day.
Who was Lucy Parsons?
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The next line of this song:
"They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn"
What is:
"But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn"?
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Became a federal holiday in 1894.
What is Labor Day?
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SEIU is known for organzing across these specific sectors.
What are healthcare, public services, and property services?
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This renowned cultural worker created this piece
Who is Ricardo Levins Morales?
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1894 strike led by Eugene V. Debs.
What was the Pullman Strike?
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Co-founded the United Farm Workers and coined the phrase "Si Se Puede."
Who is Dolores Huerta?
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Wrote the lyrics for "Bread and Roses."
Who was James Oppenheim?
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This Act created the right to a minimum wage and "time and a half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
1938 legislation signed by Roosevelt (F.D.)
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This is the year the Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU) renamed itself to Service Employees International Union to reflect it's diversifying membership.
What is 1968?
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Photographer that brought the issue of child labor to the forefront?
Who is Lewis Hines?
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In 1892, Andrew Carnegie employed 300 Pinkerton agents to try and break this strike of Pennsylvania steel workers.
What was the Homestead Strike?
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The Dept. of Labor Building in Washington, D.C. is named for her.
Who was Frances Perkins?
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Co-Founder of the Labor Heritage Foundation & the Great Labor Arts Exchange
Who is Labor’s Troubadour, Joe Glazer?
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This 1947 Act restricted the activities and power of labor unions
What is the Taft-Hartley Act.
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Tension between workers and capital in this industry in Eastern Arizona, led to labor stife and ultimately cross-racial solidarity.
What is mining?
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This renowned oral history is about “the extraordinary dreams of ordinary people”
What is "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" by Studs Terkel?
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The name given to the day when two workers died in the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike in which longshoremen in every U.S. West Coast port walked out.
What was "Bloody Thursday"?
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Before helping found the Coalition of Labor Women (CLUW), she was a gifted Chicago gospel singer and pianist, who co-founded a Choral Ensemble.
Who is Addie Wyatt?
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Sharecropper who wrote "Roll the Union on".
Who is John Handcox?
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Signed into law by Richard Nixon on December 29, 1970.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act?
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The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of this many striking miner workers, supporters, and citizen bystanders.
What is 1000?
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This 1987 film depicts Black and Italian miners struggling to form a union in West Virginia.
What is Matewan?