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BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - 11/2/2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
November 2, 2026 at 11:50 PM
opinorg.bsky.social
Florida! When you’re heading to the polls make sure you don’t forget the history of working class Floridians, like the tabaqueras, fighting against fascism.

Labor journalist and historian @kimkelly.bsky.social tells us more.

#laborhistory #floridahistory #angienixon #election2026
October 29, 2026 at 9:16 PM
bhamharold.bsky.social
NEVER BELIEVE THEM when they tell you standing up (and standing together) for what's right won't make a difference!
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#OtD 30 Oct 2003 postal workers at a Royal Mail centre and delivery office in Coventry walked off the job, joining around 20k other workers on a nationwide wildcat strike in support of a driver who was suspended. Within a few days they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...
October 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 11/2/1912: Striking timber workers from Grabow mill in Louisiana acquitted of #riot & murder charges for the Grabow Massacre, July 7, 1912, when 3 #IWW #union members & 1 private cop were killed and 50 were injured.
Grainy black and white image of jailed union members in the wake of the Grabow massacre.
November 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 11/1/1919: 400,000 US miners went on #strike during #RedScare. Led to more strikes #Matewan Massacre (1920), & #BattleofBlairMountain (1921), largest armed insurrection since the Civil War, and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/t...
November 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
Tell our stories. Carry on the fight.

On Labor History Today: @umwaunion.bsky.social’s Michael Phillippi on Mother Jones’ legacy, plus our 2021 conversation with the late Jack Metzgar on working-class culture and solidarity.

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#LaborRadioPod #LaborHistory
October 27, 2026 at 8:20 PM
bluecollarwriter.bsky.social
BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - 10/28/2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
October 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
THIS WEEK'S LABOR HISTORY TODAY

Sí, Se Puede. Solidarity Forever.

Find out more and listen to the #podcast at tinyurl.com/4dbpshxu

#LaborHistory #Song #Music #RIP #DoloresHuerta
THIS WEEK'S LABOR HISTORY TODAY PODCAST - Labor Heritage Foundation
Sí, Se Puede. Solidarity Forever. On this week's Labor History Today:we honor Dolores Huerta, the pioneering organizer and United Farm Workers co-founder who died this week at 96. Then, how did “Solidarity Forever” become labor’s enduring anthem? From the West Virginia Mine W
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November 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
TODAY at 1:00 PM Eastern in #Michigan:

Join the Michigan Labor History Society for a #Detroit Labor History Bus Tour.

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#LaborHIstory #MotorCity #PureMichigan
Detroit Labor History Bus Tours (MI) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation
Join the Michigan Labor History Society (MLHS) on a guided bus tour of important labor sites around Detroit, Michigan.
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October 31, 2026 at 1:45 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
Miss today's Labor Heritage Power Hour? Hear Elise Bryant’s tribute to Dolores Huerta, plus Big Annie, hobo history, and labor songs.

Listen to the #podcast anytime at tinyurl.com/5n758k6e or wherever you get your podcasts.

#RIP #LaborHistory #Music #Song #LaborArts @laborradionet.bsky.social
October 29, 2026 at 7:15 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 10/31/1913: Indianapolis Streetcar #Strike began. 4-day riot began on November 2, when scabs tried to restart transit services. 2 scabs & 4 union members were killed. #Police refused orders to combat strike. Governor called out the #NationalGuard.
A crowd of strikers surrounds and boards a streetcar being protected by mounted police. By Electric railway journal – Electric railway journal, Volume 42, p. 1018, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15107519
October 31, 2026 at 4:08 PM
bluecollarwriter.bsky.social
BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - 10/27/2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
October 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 11/2/2011: #GeneralStrike by Occupy Oakland in response to brutal, militarized #police attack on their encampment. 18% of schools closed because of lack of #teachers. 5% of city workers stayed home. #ILWU participation kept Port of Oakland below capacity for the entire day.
Image of cops in riot gear, firing tear gas at protesters, at 14th and Broadway, in Oakland, on October 25, 2011.
November 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 11/1/1985: #TimothyCharlesLee, 23-yr-old fashion student, #lgbtq, #AfricanAmerican, #Indigenous was attacked. 11 hrs later, found lynched near Concord BART station. A witness was chased away by a uniformed collaborator. Concord #police reputation of being full of #KKK
Protesters demanding that Timothy Lee's case be reopened and properly investigated. They carry a banner with a photo of a smiling Lee, rainbow hearts, and the words: Reopen the Case, Timothy Charles Lee, 40 years too long. timothy was found hanging from a tree at the Concord BART station, November 2, 1985.
November 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
THIS WEEK'S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR

Dolores Huerta, Presente!

Find out more and listen to the #podcast at tinyurl.com/bdcsvcp7

#RIP #SiSePude #LaborHistory #Music #PublicArt
THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR - Labor Heritage Foundation
Dolores Huerta, Presente!On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: We remember Dolores Huerta and Jack Metzgar. Plus: Big Annie stands tall in Calumet Michigan, Robert Suits shares hobo history, the Rabble Rousers’ “Union Maid,” and Darryl Holter on Love and the Shorter Workweek
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October 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 10/30/1945: #JackieRobinson signed contract with Brooklyn #Dodgers, breaking #MLB #baseball color line. Was first student at UCLA to win letters in 4 different sports. Was MLB’s first Rookie of the Year, 6-time All-Star, MVP & played in six World Series.
October 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM
digitalscorpyun.bsky.social
Dolores Huerta died October 28, 2026, at 96.

Her legacy belongs to the farmworkers who organized, the communities that built political power, and generations that learned that collective action could change institutions.

“Sí, se puede.”

Rest in power, Dolores Huerta.

#LaborHistory #DoloresHuerta
October 29, 2026 at 2:21 AM
laborheritage.bsky.social
Right now on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:

Big Annie stands tall in bronze. #CalumetMI honors a leader of #Michigan’s 1913 copper strike.

Listen live at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or on @WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC

#LaborHistory #PublicArt #Statue #PureMichigan
October 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
TOMORROW at 11:00 AM Central in #Illinois:

The groundbreaking for the Mother Jones Memorial Sculpture at E. Wacker Dr. & N. Wabash Ave. in #Chicago.

Find out mor at tinyurl.com/mva7m5vf

#LaborHistory #PublicArt #Memorial #Sculpture
Groundbreaking for the Mother Jones Memorial Sculpture (IL) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation
Mayor Brandon Johnson, DCASE, and Mother Jones Heritage Project to break ground on Mother Jones Memorial.
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October 27, 2026 at 10:26 PM
bluecollarwriter.bsky.social
BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - 10/26/2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
October 26, 2026 at 8:59 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory, 10/26/2026: #UN Commission determined that #Israel is still committing #genocide & #WarCrimes in #Gaza & #WestBank, 1 year into the "ceasefire." Incl deliberate targeting #children, using rape, sexual violence & torture.

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Stop the Genocide is a mixed media by Citizen Raja. Shows a sad girl with a Palestinian flag stenciled onto her cheek, and a red flower in her hair, holding a stop sign that reads: Stop the Genocide. Around the edges it says: Bombing Kids is Not Self-Defense; Free Palestine; End the Occupation; What Will You Do?
October 31, 2026 at 4:28 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
LABOR ART OF THE WEEK

Happy Halloween from the 1956 issue of Dodge Main News, the newspaper for @uaw.org Local 3.

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#Spooky #LaborHistory #AutoWorkers
LABOR ART OF THE WEEK - Labor Heritage Foundation
“Hurry”💀Spooky editorial cartoon about time studies used in factories to speed up assembly lines to dangerous and unhealthy levels. 1956 issue of Dodge Main News, newspaper for @uaw.org Local 3. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.[image or embed]— UAW Archiv
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October 31, 2026 at 7:18 PM
laborheritage.bsky.social
TODAY at 11:00 AM Central in #Illinois:

The groundbreaking for the Mother Jones Memorial Sculpture at E. Wacker Dr. & N. Wabash Ave. in #Chicago.

Find out mor at tinyurl.com/mva7m5vf

#LaborHistory #PublicArt #Memorial #Sculpture
Groundbreaking for the Mother Jones Memorial Sculpture (IL) - Events - Labor Heritage Foundation
Mayor Brandon Johnson, DCASE, and Mother Jones Heritage Project to break ground on Mother Jones Memorial.
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October 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 10/31/1931: Erection of 1st #Hooverville, near Pioneer Square, #Seattle. Within 2 days >50 shacks were erected. By 1941, Seattle's “Hooverville” covered 25 blocks. Hoovervilles eventually spread throughout the country. #homelessness #poverty #GreatDepression
A Hooverville in Seattle, 1933. By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA - Seattle Municipal Archives, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95346274A Hooverville in Seattle, 1933. By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA - Seattle Municipal Archives, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95346274
October 31, 2026 at 4:09 PM
talk2blb.eurosky.social
#LaborHistory in the USA is a wild ride, y’all. This is actual factual, and far from the worst. Most of you do not realize this, but this country was never about workers and we gave always had to fight for this stuff. And we will. Again. 🪔
October 28, 2026 at 1:04 AM