What’s Happening? The multi-month negotiations have escalated between two parties: the ILA, which represents 45,000 workers at major U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast container ports, and the USMX, which represents employers across the area’s longshore industry (including carriers, marine termina...
What was the Women's Trade Union League? What is the Trade Unions Act of 1926? What was the Pullman Strike? What is it called when a state leaves the Union? What states fought for the Union? What was the Union League? What trade union labor movements were happening during 1918?
What was the goal of the farm labor movement? What roles did trade unions play in the decolonization process? What were the failures of the labor movement? What was the purpose of the Women's Trade Union League? What trade union labor movements were happening during 1918?
George Herman Ruth, Jr.)was born 06 February 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were of German ancestry. His father George Herman Ruth Sr. held many jobs from salesman to streetcar operator and eventually opened a saloon in which the young George (Babe) was exposed to the seedier sid...
28% thought Memorial Day was a day to honor all military veterans and didn't know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Also, only 46% knew that Memorial Day always falls on the last Monday in May, and 21% thought the holiday falls on the last Sunday in May. What is...
Every city wants and NEEDS to grow, but it's happening so fast in Music City that avoiding its historic and tourist-friendly downtown area has become a must. Evenlocals are telling people to stop moving there. But with the recent explosion of the NuLu neighborhood, there's been an upgrade...
Several years ago, I had the title of REALTOR behind my name. I watched numerous subdivisions grow thanks to new real estate developments in Minnesota. Beyond the Parade of Homes fanfare, I was also educated about the "silent killer" in our state.The...
I was pretty shocked by the number of women who responded, even though the question was clearly meant for men. I was even more shocked by the number of women who took offense at the very thought of a woman caring about what men thought of her appearance. While nice in theory, I don'...
Outlaw was out. Sporty was in. “Is what happened to blue jeans happening to Harley-Davidsons?” worry Jane & Michael Stern in the “Encyclopedia of Pop Culture” (HarperCollins, 1992). “Are the super-heavyweight bikes turning from symbols of working-class rebellion and virility into fashion...
The line comes from the Hughes’s poem “I, too,” first published in 1926. I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. ...