Labor History & Working Class Heroes

Film: Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth  is a powerful film from 1954.  Here is a quick snyopsis of it: At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American wo...

Working Class Hero: Woody Guthrie

Singer Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912. As a young man he fled the Dust Bowl to the West Coast, where worked for a radio stati...

The Role of Women in the 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike

From December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan...

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Labor History & Working Class Heroes

News Coverage of the Birth of Local 9460

In 1999 a group of health care workers in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin got together and decided that they wanted to form a union.  What followed was a dramatic orgnizing drive that resulted in several elections where workers at St. Mary's, Millwer Dwan, the Duluth Clinic, St.

News Coverage of the Birth of Local 9460