Tag Archives: Unions

2014: Striking Anganwadi Workers

Posted on September 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

M.A. Sriram: Striking anganwadi workers (2014) (source). In India, anganwadi centers provide community health and child care support by offering nutrition and health education programs, immunizations, basic health care services (including contraception), and child care.

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1989: Overcome Evil with Good

Posted on September 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Mineworkers at the Pittston Coal Company went on strike on April 5, 1989. The company had unilaterally made cuts to workers’ health care and ceased providing health care benefits to about 1,500 retirees, widows, and disabled miners. It had also … Continue reading →

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1899: Jacksonville

Posted on September 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Carpenters Union, Jacksonville Fla. (c. 1899) (source)

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1964: Super-Strike

Posted on September 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Mike Sekowsky: Justice League of America #28 (June, 1964)

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1925: Buy Bread with the Union Label

Posted on September 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Flag of the London Jewish Bakers Union (1925) (source)

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1967: On

Posted on September 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

On On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear. On yardbird corners of parkerflights to sound filled pockets in space. On neuro-corners of striped brains & desperate electro-surgeons. On alcohol corners of pointless discussion & historical hangovers. … Continue reading →

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1925: The Sleeping Factory

Posted on August 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

     Daniel Vázquez Díaz: La fábrica bajo la niebla [The Factory in the Mist] (c. 1920) La fábrica dormida [The Sleeping Factory] (1925) In February 1919, after eight workers were fired for political reasons from a hydroelectric plant in Barcelona, … Continue reading →

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1884: Joseph Arch’s Hands

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Born the son of a farmworker, Joseph Arch started work at the age of nine—first as a crow-scarer, then as a plough-boy. Eventually, he mastered a range of skills that allowed him to move around the Midlands and South Wales, … Continue reading →

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1937: Celebration

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Workers’ wives celebrate end of CIO strike of Caterpillar Tractor Company East Peoria, Illinois, April 9, 1937 When the historic UAW sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, ended after a month and a half on February 11, 1937, it unleashed a … Continue reading →

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1959: Even a Kid Knows it’s Wrong to Cross a Picket Line

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Helen Martinez and her children (her grandchild was too young to picket) wear placards announcing that Tex-Son workers are on strike.” (source)

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