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10/21/2026

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10/21/2026

Did you hear the news? LHF's Labor Arts and Culture Database has hit 500 Labor songs!

Find your favorite labor song at https://labor-database.supersoul.top/ - and if you DON'T see your favorite Labor song there, click the "Add To Database" button and let us know!

10/21/2026

TODAY at 2:00 PM online:

The Georgia State University Reed Fink talk on "For the Welfare of the Textile Industry"

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Cal Bedenaugh talks about the political activism of Carolina mill workers in the 1980s.

10/20/2026

AMAZING news! With the addition of I Don't Want Your Millions Mister, our Labor Arts & Culture Database now has 500 LABOR SONGS!

Explore the song list at https://labor-database.supersoul.top/ - and if you know a song we're missing, click the "Add To Database" button and let us know!

10/20/2026

Dattner’s Architects Say They Want a

The proposed wall-to-wall bargaining unit includes designers, architects, and operations staff across the firm.

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Machinists Union

On the west side of Manhattan, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, there is a nearly seventy-foot-tall concrete building containing five thousand tons of road salt. The walls of the Spring Street Salt Shed slope inward and outward in enormous pale planes; the whole thing is meant to resemble

10/20/2026

Communications Workers of America Members Create Labor History Coloring Book

The coloring book was the brainchild of the NC State AFL-CIO's Jeremy Sprinkle with artwork by Henry Adamson.

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Years in the making, workers at the North Carolina AFL-CIO represented by the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild (TNG-CWA Local 32035) have announced the creation of an American Labor History Coloring Book. The coloring book, full of labor history facts, was the brainchild of NC AFL-CIO Communica

10/19/2026

No Contract, No Faust: Italian Opera Workers Announce Strike

Workers are demanding a 15 percent rise in gross annual pay and they want a meeting with the theatre’s board of directors.

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Milan’s Teatro alla Scala workers have voted to authorize a strike on Oct. 20, 2026. Thestrike was approved on Oct. 12, 2026 at a workers’ assembly called by the Cgil, Cisl, Uil and Fials unions and saw 449 out of 450 participants vote for the move. According to reports the dispute concerns th

10/19/2026

Activision Workers Authorize Strike Ahead of Call of Duty Release

QA Union members feel like higher ups have stonewalled them at every turn.

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CWA Union

Following the 2024 completion of Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard purchase, Jordan Kunze, a now-former Activision union steward and QA employee of several years, spent “well over a year” fighting to obtain a remote work accommodation due to a documented medical condition. What was supposed to b...

10/19/2026

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

A punch launches the CIO, letter carriers equalize wages, and southern textile workers win!

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National Association of Letter Carriers

1935: During the American Federation of Labor convention in Atlantic City, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis punched Carpenters president "Big Bill" Hutcheson in the face after a heated dispute on stage. This famous altercation catalyzed the split between craft unionists and in

10/19/2026

THIS WEEK'S LABOR HISTORY TODAY

No Equal Justice (Encore)

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Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs

No Equal Justice (Encore) On this week's Labor History Today: LHT producer and host Chris Garlock toured the Reuther Library Archives last week with archivist and Tales from the Reuther Library host Dan Golodner; we'll share that tour in an upcoming episode of LHT. Mea