Labor History
This song was inspired by a phrase coined during a women's textile strike in 1912. One of the lines is "hearts starve as well as bodies"
What is "Bread and Roses"
What are Teamsters, SEIU, and International Association of Fire Workers?
The name for a worker who crosses the picket line of workers on strike and takes the jobs they are striking from
What is a scab?
This law, passed in 1935, created legal protections for unions but also limits union workers' power. It's acronym is NLRA.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This organizing tool involves asking questions and listening deeply.
What is agitation?
This event, which killed over 100 women and girls in a textile factory, was the impetus behind many of the workplace safety standards we have today.
What is the Triange Fire?
Virginia is a ____-__-_____ State, which limits the power of unions and workers across the Commonwealth by making it illegal for dues to be mandatory for workers who have not voluntarily joined the union.
What is right-to-work (a misnomer)
Name three unions
What are....
It's what you are paid under the OR scheduling law if you agree to go home early, but did not volunteer
What is half the pay for the hours you lost
When mapping out a workplace, before identifying leaders, we identify these.
What are groups?
The reason MLK JR was in Memphis when he was assasinated
What is the Memphis Garbage workers' strike
The largest union in VA (and the country)
What is the AFL-CIO? (Bonus points if you can spell out the acronym)
A famous corporation chain with a huge number of locations that has seen a massive wave of unionization drives across the US, including a few stores here in Richmond!
What is Starbucks?
Both union and non-union workers have the right to discuss their _______ __________, including their wages.
What is working conditions?
This is the step in an organizing conversation where you prepare the worker for the boss' negative reactions to the action you are planning to do.
What is Innoculation?
What is Amazon?
A local union chapter in Richmond known controversially for its abbreviation
The first union in the United States
What is the Federal Society of Journeyman Cordwainers? (leather workers and cobblers)
This is when the boss says or does something that would discourage union activity and it is an unfair labor practice (ULP) under the NLRA.
What is chilling union activity?
The reason why sharing your story is powerful
What is it encourages the worker to open up and shows them victory is possible by sharing an example from your experience
The largest labor uprising in US history which occurred in WV, involved 10,000 armed coal miners attempting to form a union, 3000 lawmakers/strikebreakers, and lasted 5 days, only ending when over a million rounds of ammunition were fired and 16-100 miners were murdered
What is the Battle of Blair Mountain?
An type of action recently made legal for government employees that makes unionizing legal
What is collective bargaining
There is no war but ____ ___
What is class war?
In order to be legally protected, workplace actions must be this
What is collective?
When we've identified a leader but they are anti-union or won't agree to meet, this is the key to getting them involved.
What is identifying their "issue."