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Al Bradbury: Art is "how we sustain ourselves"
Published On 4/23/2024
“When I first started coming to the Great Labor Arts Exchange, it was like I had found my people,” said Alexandra Bradbury on Saturday night as she accepted LHF’s 2024 Joe Hill Award from Labor Heritage Foundation president Ashley See and LHF Executive Director Chris Garlock.
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LIVE from GLAE/Labor Notes
Published On 4/18/2024
It’s finally here! LHF is at the Great Labor Arts Exchange at Labor Notes in Chicago.
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Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show: The Return of John Brown
Published On 4/18/2024
Abolitionist John Brown is mistaken for a Black Lives Matter activist in Gene Bruskin’s latest labor musical, Matewan and Office Space return to the DC Labor FilmFest, and a tour guide keeps Black worker history alive.
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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK: IBEW photo contest
Published On 4/13/2024
Photo by Ryan Caulfield, Ventura, Calif., IBEW Local 952. One of the winning entries in the IBEW’s annual photo contest.
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LABOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Dolores Huerta
Published On 4/13/2024
UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta celebrated her 94th birthday on April 10...
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LABOR HISTORY TODAY: Florence Reece
Published On 4/13/2024
April 12: Birth of Florence Reece, active in Harlan County, Ky. coal strikes and author of famed labor song “Which Side Are You On?”
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PICKET SIGN OF THE WEEK: @FordhamGSW
Published On 4/12/2024
@FordhamGSW’s practice picket line on April 11.
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This Week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Labor FilmFest, union photos, Coal Mining Woman
Published On 4/12/2024
Previewing the 2024 DC Labor FilmFest, winners of the IBEW’s annual photo contest, Si Kahn on Coal Mining Woman. Plus: celebrating the UFW’s Dolores Huerta.
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LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK: The Power of Union
Published On 4/12/2024
Cool animation
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DreamWorks Animation Production Workers Form Union Under IATSE
Published On 4/12/2024
Production workers from DreamWorks Animation have officially voted to form a union with The Animation Guild (TAG), also known as Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 839, and the Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE Local 700).
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CWA Journalists “Go Dark” During Eclipse
Published On 4/12/2024
As the total solar eclipse captivated much of the nation on Monday, two local newspapers went dark.
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AFM musicians ratify new motion picture agreements
Published On 4/5/2024
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) announced Tuesday that members have voted to ratify the Basic Theatrical Motion Picture and Basic Television Motion Picture Agreements contract that was unanimously recommended by the bargaining committee in February.
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Celebrating Si’s 80th
Published On 4/5/2024
John McCutcheon, who called Si Kahn “The best damn songwriter in the South…in his spare time!” back in 1975, is throwing an online birthday party for his longtime friend on April 14.
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Oxford University Press Workers: Ready to strike, if necessary
Published On 4/2/2024
After more than two years of management slow-walking negotiations, The NewsGuild-CWA (TNG-CWA), which represents Oxford University Press (OUP) workers in the United States, is making plans for a potential strike.
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You Betcha! Farmer-Labor solidarity is possible
Published On 4/2/2024
The Minnesota-based Farmer-Labor Education Committee has issued a call for a community-engaged art commission. Deadline is Friday, April 12th; info session April 5 at 4p CST.
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Get your LHF merch!
Published On 4/1/2024
We can’t guarantee that your coffee or tea – or other beverage of choice – will taste better in your Labor Heritage Foundation mug, but why take a chance?
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Great Labor Arts Exchange/Labor Notes preview
Published On 3/31/2024
Rockin’ Your Rally and Picket Line, Creative Tactics and Strategic Mischief, and Songwriting for the Movement are just a few of the sessions available at this year’s Great Labor Arts Exchange, being held April 18-21 at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.
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READERS WRITE: Folk Music and the New Deal archived?
Published On 3/31/2024
“Is the Folk Music and the New Deal program (streamed March 26) available in archive?” wonders Hazel Schlueter.
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SAG-AFTRA members ratify TV animation contracts
Published On 3/30/2024
SAG-AFTRA members have ratified new three-year television and basic cable animation contracts covering voice actors, with overwhelming support.
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Shelf Life Books first Richmond bookstore to organize
Published On 3/30/2024
Workers at a popular new and used bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, have officially joined UFCW Local 400.
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THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Changing Lives, Changing L.A.
Published On 3/30/2024
Changing Lives, Changing L.A.: four members of UNITE HERE Local 11 share their stories.
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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK: Remembering Triangle families
Published On 3/29/2024
This portrait of two young women who died in the Triangle Factory Fire on March 25, 1911 — sisters Lucia Maltese (age 20) and Rosarea Maltese (age 14)—is carried by family members at the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire in 2011.
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LABOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Harry Bridges
Published On 3/29/2024
“The most important word in the language of the working class is ‘solidarity’”
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LABOR HISTORY TODAY: “Battle of Wall Street”
Published On 3/29/2024
March 29, 1948: “Battle of Wall Street,” police charge strikers lying down in front of stock exchange doors, 43 arrested
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Catch 'Storming Caesars Palace' and 'The Exchange Girl' this weekend
Published On 3/29/2024
In honor of Women's History Month, the DC Labor FilmFest and Workers Unite! Film Festival are presenting two films On Demand this weekend: Storming Caesars Palace and The Exchange Girl.
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Museum workers ratify deal with MASS MoCA, ending weekslong strike
Published On 3/29/2024
After holding the picket line for nearly three weeks, unionized workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) have successfully ratified a new contract that delivers victories on core member issues.
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California AMC workers vote to unionize with IATSE
Published On 3/29/2024
Workers at the Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood in Universal City, California, have officially voted to unionize with the Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK: Bread and Roses
Published On 3/29/2024
The Golden Butterfly Band
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CLUW’s “transcendent” 50th
Published On 3/25/2024
Leaders of the Coalition of Labor Union Women celebrated the organization’s 50th anniversary on Sunday at the “Transcending” Labor Legacy Landmark in Detroit, Michigan.
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Seeking Today’s Workplace Poets
Published On 3/25/2024
“I had the good fortune, in the mid-1970s, to be invited into a creative writing class as an audit student—my introduction to the craft of engaged poetry,” writes Susan Eisenberg in her March 21 Labor Notes post.
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PICKET SIGN OF THE WEEK
Published On 3/24/2024
Graduate workers at Northwestern University, members of UE Local 1122, have ratified their first UE contract
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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK
Published On 3/24/2024
Don't Play With My Money - Don't Play with My Family
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LABOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Published On 3/24/2024
"I thought it was going to be a light comedy about actors who get the same day job..."
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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK
Published On 3/24/2024
“Gracias a Martín: Courtesy of the Custodian,” by Akilah Lisbon
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Oakland Museum of California recognizes union
Published On 3/23/2024
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.
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THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Our labor sheroes
Published On 3/23/2024
Labor leaders share their favorite sheroes, an REI worker writes a play and the Coalition of Labor Union Women celebrates 50 years.
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LABOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Published On 3/23/2024
Storming Caesars Palace
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LABOR HISTORY TODAY
Published On 3/22/2024
A 32-day lockout of major league baseball players ends; B.C.’s Tough and Fearless Truck-Driving Woman
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LHF launches new website, logo & merch shop
Published On 3/22/2024
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.
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Unanimous union victory for dancers at Dance Theatre of Harlem
Published On 3/22/2024
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).
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Denver Art Museum workers vote in union
Published On 3/22/2024
Workers at the Denver Art Museum are celebrating their new union.
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NYC Nitehawk Cinema Workers defy union-busting campaign
Published On 3/22/2024
Workers at Nitehawk Cinema’s Prospect Park location in Brooklyn voted in favor of the union last weekend.
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LABOR POEM OF THE WEEK
Published On 3/22/2024
Boss made a $
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time...
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FILM: Rustin
Published On 2/24/2024
Fri, February 23, 7pm – 9pm
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We Were There With Bev Grant & the DC Labor Chorus
Published On 2/24/2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tuesday night’s performance of “We Were There” with Bev Grant, CarolAnn Solebello and the DC Labor Chorus was absolutely transcendent; there wasn’t an empty seat in the house nor a dry eye as the performers brought women’s labor history brilliantly alive and Elise Bryant brought us all to our feet at the end, leading a foot-stomping communal performance of Solidarity Forever. Very special thanks and appreciation to the American Federation of Musicians’ Music Performance Trust Fund, which made it possible for LHF to present the evening free of charge. - Chris Garlock; photo by Hetty Scofield
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LABOR HISTORY TODAY
Published On 2/23/2024
Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land Is Your Land” following a frigid trip -- partially by hitchhiking, partially by rail -- from California to Manhattan.
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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK
Published On 2/23/2024
“The #IGNCG has been granted voluntary recognition,” tweeted the IGN Creators Guild yesterday.
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LABOR HISTORY TODAY
Published On 2/18/2024
Art Shields: The People’s Scribe
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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK
Published On 2/18/2024
Go Ask Angela- Colleen Kattau
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LABOR ART OF THE WEEK
Published On 2/18/2024
Velma Hopkins
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THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Black, Red, White and Blue
Published On 2/18/2024
Black, Red, White and Blue: Union and civil rights organizer Si Kahn on “Black, Red, White and Blue,” his song about a Black World War II veteran...
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Sen. Warren Backs MASS MoCA Strike as it Enters Second Week
Published On 2/18/2024
Sen. Warren Backs MASS MoCA Strike as It Enters Second Week
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is throwing her support behind the MASS MoCA Union (UAW Local 2110), members at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) who have been on strike since March 6 amid stalled contract negotiations. In a post on X, Warren said she stands in solidarity with them and that “Museum management should negotiate with union workers in good faith for a fair deal.”
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Catch the Arts Exchange Early Bird!
Published On 2/18/2024
The 2024 Labor Notes Conference – which includes the Great Labor Arts Exchange -- is just two months away: April 19-21. Act fast and register today—the early-bird rate of $140 expires on March 1!
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Update on saving the UE ‘Solidarity’ mural
Published On 2/18/2024
“I have bad news and good news about the effort to preserve the ‘Solidarity’ mural at the UE Hall in Chicago,” reports Kari Thompson, Director of UE’s Research and Education Fund.
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Inventory of American Labor Landmarks
Published On 2/15/2024
The Inventory of American Labor Landmarks, directed by Saul Schniderman, is a catalog of sites in the United States commemorating the history and heritage of America’s workers.
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