Episodes
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
October 21 Organizing Paradise and Making it Better
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1999. That was the day that 270 workers from the Embassy Vacation Resorts in Maui voted to join Local 5 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees. Local 5 got its start in Hawaii in 1938.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015
October 20 Merle Travis-Songs of the Working Man
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1983. That was the day that musician Merle Travis died. Known for his unique finger-picking guitar style, Travis wrote songs that captured the hard life of the coal miner.
Monday Oct 19, 2015
October 19 In the Streets and the Shareholder Meetings
Monday Oct 19, 2015
Monday Oct 19, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. In what the Chicago Sun Times called it the “biggest labor management war of the last two decades.” The battle for union recognition at ten J.P. Stevens’s textile plants ended in victory.
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
October 18 “Walking” in their Shoes
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
On this day in Labor History, and we are going all the way back to 1648. More than a hundred years before the American Revolution, an early trade organization was founded in the Colony of Massachusetts. They called themselves the “Company of Shoemakers.”
Saturday Oct 17, 2015
October 17 The Making of a Monopoly
Saturday Oct 17, 2015
Saturday Oct 17, 2015
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1877. That was the day that John D. Rockefeller, and his company Standard Oil struck a deal with the Pennsylvania Railroad that would cement his monopoly on the nation’s oil refineries. In the early 1870s Rockefeller was building his oil empire out from its center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Friday Oct 16, 2015
October 16 Striking a Blow at Slave Labor
Friday Oct 16, 2015
Friday Oct 16, 2015
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1859. That was the day that abolitionist John Brown led a raid at the armory in Harpers Ferry, in what is now West Virginia. His goal was to strike a blow toward ending slavery.
Thursday Oct 15, 2015
October 15 Labor’s “Magna Carta”
Thursday Oct 15, 2015
Thursday Oct 15, 2015
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1914. That was the day that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act. The act also became known as Labor’s “Magna Carta.”
Wednesday Oct 14, 2015
October 14 Labor Standing in Solidarity Against the Nazis
Wednesday Oct 14, 2015
Wednesday Oct 14, 2015
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1933. That was the day the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor decided to call for a boycott of Nazi Germany’s goods and services. Jewish labor leaders in the United States led the push for the boycott.
Tuesday Oct 13, 2015
October 13 Delivering a Better Future
Tuesday Oct 13, 2015
Tuesday Oct 13, 2015
On this day in Labor History, the year was 2000. That was the day the newspaper carriers for the San Jose Mercury News ended their walkout. Eighty percent of the newspaper carriers were Vietnamese immigrants to the United States. Many were elderly, or recent immigrants with families.
Monday Oct 12, 2015
October 12 “Bury me with my boys in Mt. Olive”
Monday Oct 12, 2015
Monday Oct 12, 2015
“Bury me with my boys in Mt. Olive, and let no traitor draw breath over my grave.” Such was the last wish of labor leader Mother Jones. She wanted her final resting to place to be alongside the coal miners who gave their lives in the struggle to bring fair wages and a safe working environment to Virden, Illinois.