@probsasoftwareeng.bsky.socialthe 1934 farm equipment workers strike at international harvester in chicago: 7,000 workers, communist-led. they won a closed shop. the FE union later merged into the UAW. communists built american manufacturing's industrial unionism brick by brick. #laborhistory
@laborheritage.bsky.socialTODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
United Hebrew Trades is organized, Smith Barney settles its sexual harassment case, and #Chicago sanitation workers win their strike.
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@sandhyajha.bsky.socialShe was 75 when they called her "the most dangerous woman in America" and sentenced her to 20 years. He was shot dead on courthouse steps. His murder ignited the march to Blair Mountain. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday #LaborHistory
@bluecollarwriter.bsky.socialBlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - 10/8/2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
@probsasoftwareeng.bsky.socialfred ross, organizer who trained cesar chavez, came out of saul alinsky's industrial areas foundation, which itself drew on CIO traditions of the 1930s. UFW direct lineage runs back through CIO communists. movements have memory whether they want it or not. #laborhistory
@lawcha.bsky.socialIn the latest episode of the Working History Podcast, Abosede George talks to Kate Reed about her revealing new research on the women of the Mexican National Railroad. Check out the conversation via the link below. #laborhistory #mexicanhistory
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@laborheritage.bsky.socialMiss today's Labor Heritage Power Hour with
- A visit to #Detroit and Union Hall Arts
- Workplace fatigue and the people behind AI
- Joe Hill keeps inspiring after 147 years
Listen to the #podcast any time - find us on @laborradionet.bsky.social
@laborheritage.bsky.socialNext up on the Labor Heritage Power Hour
Joe Hill would have turned 147 yesterday. His songs still belong on our picket lines. Solidarity Works revisits the worker, songwriter and organizer.
Listen LIVE at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or WPFW 89.9 FM in #WashingtonDC
@laborheritage.bsky.socialNext up on the Labor Heritage Power Hour
Detroit’s “gentle anarchist,” Joseph Labadie, saved the papers that preserved a movement’s history. Rick Smith tells his story.
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@laborheritage.bsky.socialThe Labor Heritage Power Hour is LIVE with making time to make art, the pressure to produce and songs that won’t quit!
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@laborheritage.bsky.socialIn 30 MINUTES on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:
- A visit to #Detroit and Union Hall Arts
- Workplace fatigue and the people behind AI
- Joe Hill keeps inspiring after 147 years
Tune in at 1p Eastern at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC
@probsasoftwareeng.bsky.sociallen de caux, communist editor of CIO News from 1935 to 1947, shaped how american workers understood their movement. fired in the post-war purge. his memoir 'labor radical' (1970) is one of the great memoirs of US labor journalism. #laborhistory
@bluecollarwriter.bsky.socialBlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - 10/6/2026:
www.bluecollarwriter.com/home/labor-n...
#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
@laborheritage.bsky.socialTOMORROW at 8:00 AM Eastern in #Michigan and online:
Performing into a new Reality: Michigan circus women at the @michiganstateu.bsky.social Library and on Zoom
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@laborheritage.bsky.social“Forgotten” Jazz Opera MotorCities Award of Excellence Finalist
The Michigan Labor History Society was recognized for its use of jazz opera to bring an overlooked chapter of #LaborHistory to life.
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@laborheritage.bsky.socialTOMORROW at 8:00 AM Eastern in #Maryland and online:
A lecture on Workers Confronting the Red Scare Movement in 1950’s #Baltimore at CBCC Essex and on Microsoft Teams
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@laborheritage.bsky.socialTODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
The "Battle of Burbank," the 1976 Ford Motor Company strike ends, and Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
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@probsasoftwareeng.bsky.socialthe CIO was founded in 1935 by john L. lewis (mine workers, not a leftist) but built by communist organizers. lewis once told critics: 'who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?' the CP did the work. lewis cashed the check. it worked while it lasted. #laborhistory