[April 5th, 1920] A strike of Chicago's railroad yard workers, not authorized by their labor union, put 50,000 related laborers out of work and tied Chicago's 25 railway lines. The strike spread to the rest of the United States during the week. books.google.co.uk/books?…
TIL there was a comic book series chronicling an alternate Superman timeline where he lands in the Soviet Union instead of the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sup…
Does employer based health insurance impinge labor mobility in measurable terms? If so, what the size of this effect in the United States where EBHI is predominant?
Pete on State of the Union with Jake Tapper: “Why wasn’t Congress consulted? It seems like more people at Mar-a-Lago heard about this than people in the United States Congress” twitter.com/CNNSotu/statu…
How the Power of Pictures Helped End Child Labor in the United States.
During the long period of slavery in the United States, were there any southern land owners that simply chose not to have slaves do their labor?
Along with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., Google calendar flags Black Friday as one of the "Holidays in the United States."
TIL Lafayette, a Frenchman who served as a General in the Revolutionary War, toasted to 'the perpetual union of the United States. It has always saved us in times of storm; one day it will save the world.' In 1917, an American officer gave a speech at his grave in Paris; 'Lafayette, we are here.' thisamericanlife.org/radi…
Although the hospitality and tourism industries generated more than $1 trillion across the United States in 2018 — including $2.7 billion in state tax revenue in Hawaii alone — its workers get paid the least of any other labor industry, according to a recent study done by Florida State University. bizjournals.com/pacific/n…
What are some of the best books following the rise and fall of organized labor in the United States?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but what history books are best for a look at unions in America?
European Union in the style of the United States
Is one United States state the equivalent of a country in the European Union?
As far as I know state and country are synonyms and a US state and European country are usually about the same size so I'm trying to make a connection I suppose
TDIH: March 20, 1948, With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ame…
[June 6, 1919] Large group of overseas soldiers who applied for Naturalization to the United States, June 6, 1919. Man in suit in center is Raymond Crist, Director of Citizenship, Bureau of Naturalization, U.S. Department of Labor.
Twenty-two Harvard alumni who currently serve in the United States House of Representatives sent a letter to University President Lawrence S. Bacow last week declaring their support for the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers strike thecrimson.com/article/20…
They're destroying the Brazilian rain forest, exploiting child labor, poisoning and stealing land from indigenous peoples, committing financial fraud, and are one of the top 10 polluters in the United States. Meet Cargill, the Worst Company in the World fark.com/go/10486260/www.…
You are the President of the United States. You are informed an american black op has successfully captured the Abrahamic God. The deity can be kept unconscious but not destroyed or coerced. Your first State of the Union address is in 30 minutes. What do you do?
Flag Of The United States In They Style Of The European Union
TIL: In 1887 Oregon became the first state of the United States to make Labor Day an official public holiday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab…
Airbus has written to airline leaders to appeal for their backing in a trade dispute with rival Boeing, warning of higher aircraft prices and passenger fares if the United States and European Union descend into a tariff war. reuters.com/article/us-ai…
"In the year 2020, how can a president of the United States give a State of the Union speech and not mention climate change?" - Bernie Sanders on Twitter twitter.com/BernieSanders…
[January 19, 1920] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a nonprofit organization is founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ame…
[todayilearned] TIL of William Howard Hughes, a United States Air Force officer with security clearance and expertise in rocket self-destruct technology, vanished in 1983. Authorities feared he had defected to the Soviet Union. In June 2018, he was found living in California under an assumed name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
[todayilearned] TIL that the Soviet Union disapproved of Somalia's 1977 invasion of Ethiopia and so ceased its support of Somalia and started supporting Ethiopia. In response, the United States ceased its support of Ethiopia and started supporting Somalia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oga…
The European Union on Monday urged the United States and Latin American powers against launching a military intervention to oust the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. telegraph.co.uk/news/2019…
Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days (Union of Concerned Scientists) ucsusa.org/global-warming…
@ABC: Bernie Sanders on Pres. Trump’s #SOTU: "In the year 2020, how can a president of the United States give a State of the Union speech and not mention climate change?” https://t.co/uY9rogMTix https://t.co/5zAcuWqKnM mobile.twitter.com/ABC/st…
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union...
...establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bYkNptOJns
List of unusual or unusual countries in the United States wikimediafoundation.org/w…
Flag of the unlikely Union of Austria and Australia in the style of the United States
[WP] During WW2 Nazi Germany discovered a new element in the deep oceans and tunnels of the earth that would revolutionize civilization as we know it. After the ultimate defeat of Germany instead of looking to space the eyes of the United States and Soviet Union looked downward, the race had begun.
In 1989, the Yellowstone Caldera erupts in the United States, and the US loses most, if not all of its power. How does the world react to having the Soviet Union as the sole superpower?
