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"Merry Strikemas, one and all!"
Amazon Teamsters
who have been striking Amazon locations across the country for the past few days
I knew that that was a signal that the momentum was catching on.
Lillian Roberts
Released on 12/24/69 after being jailed for organizing an illegal strike by New York state employees; she was sentenced to 30 days but released after 11, on Christmas Eve. AFSCME ultimately won the strike
“We must all remember that the gains we enjoy today were not gifts—they were hard-fought victories because Frances Perkins dared to believe that workers should thrive and not just survive.”
Julie Su
Acting Secretary of Labor, speaking at 12/16 proclamation establishing a new national monument to Frances Perkins, America’s first woman Cabinet secretary and the longest-serving secretary of labor.
When a company wants to close down, move out and discontinue jobs in a community
that has provided tax breaks and a good labor supply, the company owes the community something more than a goodbye. The company ought to come before the bar, as it were,
and justify why it has to close down. If it cannot be justified it should be forbidden.
If it closes anyway, seize the assets for the community.
William Winpisinger
former president of the IAM
Why can I not fight for my country too?
Deborah Samson
First known woman to impersonate a man in order to fight in the Revolutionary War.
“If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.”
Walter Reuther
UAW president, elected president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations on this date in 1951:
At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian proverb
“NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.”
Michael Badnarik
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was approved by Congress on this date in 1993.
The whistle's blowing long. Where another laker's gone. And there's nothing that you can do, Mr. Fleming
Larry Penn & Darryl Holter
The Wreck of the Carl D. Bradley (https://youtu.be/iKoMEBedbak?si=xyI7ZIuTY-PQ7PpP)
“The only answer to a powerful business leader is a powerful labor union.”
Hilton M. Weiss
If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.
Ken Loach
Film director
“There's this connection that we really value that we're trying to use to make better images and expand beyond some of these power dynamics that have existed in the past.”
Jeffrey Skemp
Photographer (with Leslie Grant), “Archive in Motion: The ATU Workers of Metro Transit”, a photography exhibition, on display at the East Side Freedom Library, in St. Paul, Minnesota