For two days in December of 1946, the streets of Oakland were host to a worker’s holiday. Nearly 130,000 workers refused to work, shutting down commerce in the East Bay, and instead they flooded the streets in a show of solidarity against union busting. What started off as a small retail clerk strike grew into […]
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Cast Members give resounding approval to new 4-year contract Scholarship Award Application Member Feature: Ray Haller minces no words without uttering a single one Member Feature: Small tip pays off handsomely for member Steven Fiddler
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On August 24, 1939, three men stood above a small metal trashcan with a copy of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath in hand. As a newspaper photographer snaps a shot, Clell Pruett, a local sharecropper, tosses the book into the trashcan, which was then followed by a match. Pruett, along with his boss, the […]
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Disney Hotel members ratify new contract! Scholarship award application Feature: Rocky’s Road: Critic-turned convert becomes Resort’s first ever home grown union rep Feature: ‘The Vault’ promises to attract ‘edgier’ clientele
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In the early hours of a hot August morning in 1917, the body of a young union organizer hanged off a railroad trestle near Butte, Montana. The body, beaten and bloody, was that of Frank Little, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Pinned to the body was a note that cautioned, […]
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