Dawn Landes will present 18 selections from the Songbook this Friday as part of PineCone’s Down Home Concert series, joined by a star-studded cast of musicians, includiong Charly Lowry, Rissi Palmer, Kamara Thomas, Watchhouse’s Emily Frantz, and Violet Bell’s Lizzy Ross.
From the 1900’s to the 1930’s, armed conflicts between corporations and workers erupted across several states that became known as the “Coal Wars.” The most famous battle of the Coal Wars occurred in Logan County, West Virginia in 1921. It was called the Battle of Blair Mountain. It started with a simple spark, as most […]
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These Are the Most Unionized States in America
By Ellen Dewitt, Stacker News
On 5/6/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
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Unions spent the first half of the 20th century transforming a massive industrial peasantry into the American middle class. In the second half of the 20th century, big business fought back by pressing for so-called right-to-work laws, which dilute the influence of labor unions and their power of collective bargaining.
The right-to-work campaign has been an unmitigated success for big business. Union memberships plummet wherever these laws exist, weakening the primary check on corporate excess. The results are clear: The dramatic decline in union membership that began in the early 1960s directly coincided with a meteoric rise in the share of income going to the top 10 percent.