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Wondering how Local 1199 strove to attract members and increase unionization within workplaces? Take a look at these posters and notices from the 1960s-70s! #LaborHistory #KheelCenter #Unions @1199SEIU
"Union Women Build the Future" Poster by Lincoln Cushing From the Kheel Center Poster Collection, a great resource for studying the iconography of labor through time. #LaborHistory #Unions #KheelCenter
Today’s #FoundInTheArchives is a small United Farm Workers (UFW) banner! “A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride. When people see it they know it means dignity.” - Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the UFW #LaborHistory #KheelCenter
We chalk to remember the lives of 146 souls lost to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 113 years ago today. I chalk for Rose Mehl (15 years old) who lived on 278 E 7th St. in Manhattan, NY. #Trianglefire #StreetPictures #KheelCenter #Trianglefirecoalition
"Working Women Want Equal Pay" Today, March 12th, 2024 is #EqualPayDay, symbolizing how far women must work into 2024 to earn what men earned in 2023. This poster was distributed by the AFL-CIO Working Women's Department. #LaborHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #KheelCenter
"When we finally pulled the switch and there was some quiet, I finally remembered something: that I was a human being, that I could stop those machines, that I was better than those machines anytime" - Sit Down Striker in 1936 #LaborHistory #KheelCenter #Posters
#OnThisDay in 1935, the chorus of the ILGWU Educational Department performed a concert🎵 #KheelCenter #LaborHistory #LaborArchives #ILGWU
Happy Holidays going into the weekend!❄️☃️ Pictured here are picketers in December 1966 accusing Sears Roebuck of being anti-union. #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays #KheelCenter #LaborArchives #LaborHistory
This month almost 75 years ago David Dubinsky, George Meany, William Green, and others attended the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions conference in 1949. #LaborHistory #KheelCenter
#OnThisDay Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at a Coat and Suit NRA Label Dedication Ceremony in 1933. Also attending were Leo Del Monte, Anna Roosevelt Dall, George W. Alger, David Dubinsky, and Isidore Nagler. Photo from Collection #5780P. #KheelCenter #LaborHistory
Happy Fall Break Cornellians! 🍁🍂 This newsclipping features a drawing by John T. McCutcheon. Newsclipping found in Collection #5693. #KheelCenter #LaborHistory #LaborArchives
Happy Labor Day! Here, members of ILGWU Local 62 marches in a Labor Day Parade. Date unknown. Found in Collection #5780P ILGWU Photographs. #LaborDay #LaborMovement #Unions #Strikes #KheelCenter #ILGWU
#OnThisDay in 1925 The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African American labor union, was founded. By 1935, under Randolph they became the first African-American union in the country to be affiliated with the AFL #LaborHistory #Unions #KheelCenter #ILR
This quote perfectly exemplifies Mother Jones, a fierce and forceful labor activist who was dubbed "the most dangerous woman in America" by a US district attorney. #MotherJones #LaborActivist #LaborHistory #Strikes #Unions #KheelCenter #ILRSchool #Cornell
"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation." - Eugene V Debs Poster from Collection #6089 G Local 1199 Bread and Roses Culural Project Posters. #Posters #KheelCenter #LaborHistory
An excerpt from one of the most famous women's rights and abolitionist speeches, by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights Convention in 1854. #CornellILR #LaborHistory #Posters #KheelCenter
♥️♣️ An advertisement from the IWW, date unknown, with a punny message. ♦️♠️ From Collection #5210 G, IWW Graphics. #IWW #IndustrialWorkersOfTheWorld #KheelCenter #LaborArchives #CornellILR
🌎Happy Earth Day! 🌍 Poster from Coll. 5780/176 P. #KheelCenter #LaborHistory #EarthDay
Happy Tax Day! 😅 This cartoon is from our Labor Editorial Cartoons by John Baer, Collection #5693. #KheelCenter #LaborHistory #Cornell @cornellilr @CornellLibrary @CatherwoodLibe
Another installment from the Kheel Center Poster Collection: this one was used as a push to get more women involved in unions! Interested in more posters? Check out Collection 6227 G! #KheelCenter #CornellILR #Unions
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