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Today in Labor History: Medical interns win right to unionize
November 29, 2012On this date in 1999, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that medical interns could unionize and negotiate.
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Today in labor history: Photo engravers go on strike
November 28, 2012During this time, 20,000 other newspaper workers represented by other unions refused to cross the photo engravers' picket lines.
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Today in labor history: Workers perform “Pins and Needles” on Broadway
November 27, 2012Nov. 27, 1937, the pro-labor musical revue, "Pins & Needles," opens on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members.
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Left on the bookshelf: “My Discovery of America”
November 20, 2012American audiences may find the travel narrative of the three months Vladimir Mayakovsky spent in the Western hemisphere in 1925 to be a more accessible literary contribution.
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Today in labor history: “Scab” used for the first time
November 20, 2012On this day in 1816 the term "scab" was coined by the Albany Typographical Union in reference to strike breaking.
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