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EDITOR’S NOTE: This was a very big week for the Labor Heritage Foundation. After months of painstaking behind-the-scenes work, the new LHF website went live this week, LHF released merchandise featuring our brand-new new logo, and the 2024 DC Labor FilmFest schedule and merch shop was released. We’ll be releasing more details about each of these projects soon but I wanted to thank everyone who worked so diligently to bring them to fruition, including LHF staff – Larry Smoot, Hetty Scofield and Jenn Schwartz – along with our longtime colleagues at the AFI Silver Theatre and brand-new partners at Worx Printing. Please do check out the website, shop and DC Labor FilmFest schedule and merch shop and let me know what you think!
- Chris Garlock
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NYC Nitehawk Cinema Workers defy union-busting campaign
After notifying management last month of their intention to organize with the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Local 2179, workers at Nitehawk Cinema’s Prospect Park location in Brooklyn voted in favor of the union last weekend.Follow Nitehawk Workers Union here.
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Denver Art Museum workers vote in union
Workers at the Denver Art Museum are celebrating their new union. They won their union election last week with a supermajority of 67% voting to join forces with AFSCME Council 18, making the Denver Art Museum the first unionized art museum in Colorado. The two new Colorado unions are part of AFSCME Cultural Workers United, a national movement of cultural workers at libraries, museums and zoos joining together to negotiate for better pay, working conditions, demand equity and fight for transparency in our workplaces.
- AFSCME NOW RoundUp newsletter
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Unanimous union victory for dancers at Dance Theatre of Harlem
After just over a month since coming forward with their intent to organize, dancers at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) have won their election to form a union with the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA). The vote was unanimous and DTH management has publicly stated its intention to work in good faith with AGMA to improve the well-being of its dancers and strengthen the industry as a whole.
- AFL-CIO Daily Brief
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Oakland Museum of California recognizes union
The Oakland Museum of California voluntarily recognized OMCA Workers United, an affiliate of AFSCME Council 57 Cultural Workers United and the museum’s first union, last week. OMCA Workers United represents a range of staff roles, including preparators, curators, designers, ticketing and retail associates, and program developers.
- AFL-CIO Daily Brief
| | The Labor Heritage Power Hour, hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant, airs every Thursday at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC, and you can listen to the show's podcast here.
On this week's show: Labor leaders share their favorite sheroes, an REI worker writes a play and the Coalition of Labor Union Women celebrates 50 years. Plus music from Nina Simone, Rose City Kings and The Detroit Diva. | | |
Graduate workers at Northwestern University, members of UE Local 1122, have ratified their first UE contract; read more here. Thanks to Labor Notes’ Al Bradbury for passing this along.
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Don't Play With My Money - Don't Play with My Family
Posted by ATU; “Throwback Thursday to our successful Local 689 Cinder Bed strike and ATU anthem” | |
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Storming Caesars Palace
Ruby Duncan and a band of mothers launch a revolutionary Black feminist anti-poverty movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Online screening coming March 29-31; co-sponsored by the DC Labor FilmFest; hosted by the Workers United Film Festival; click here for details.
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I thought it was going to be a light comedy about actors who get the same day job, but when I was faced with the reality of what was happening in the workplace, the play wasn't going to be that anymore because there was a way more important story that needed to be told.”
Playwright – and REI worker – Laura Neill, talking about her new play “Foot Wears House” on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour.
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Boss made a $
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.
Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay the rent.
When boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we strike
And take our lives back.
Posted by @RWDSU on #WorldPoetryDay (3/21)
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March 22, 1990
A 32-day lockout of major league baseball players ends with an agreement to raise the minimum league salary from $68,000 to $100,000 and to study revenue-sharing between owners and players.
On this week’s Labor History Today podcast, B.C.’s Tough and Fearless Truck-Driving Woman: the story of Diana Kilmury, the bold and fearless truck driver who took on both sexist attitudes on the job and a corrupt union.
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LAST WEEK'S QUIZ: The 1894 U.S.-China treaty prevented Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. | |
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"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
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