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Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize - Call for Entries
2022-08-30 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York)
The New York Labor History Association’s Bernhardt prize is an award of $1000 given for an article that furthers the understanding of the history of working people. The prize and the forum honor the vision of the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people.Articles that put current issues like work, housing, organizing, health, or education in a historical context AND articles about historical events are both welcome. The work should be published in print or online between August 31, 2021 and August 30 2022.Deadline: Tuesday August 30, 2022 ENTER HEREThe winner will be announced at a forum on labor journalism with NYU’s Bobst Library on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 6pm.

The award is sponsored by the New York Labor History Association and NYU’s Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and co-sponsored by LaborArts, Metro New York Labor Communications Council, and NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

Walking Tour - Day in the Life: 1911
2022-07-25 00:00 - 2022-09-02 23:59 (America/New_York) | Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
On this tour, you’ll walk the same streets as the Rogarshevsky family did in 1911 before visiting the exhibit of their recreated tenement apartment. Explore the neighborhood through their eyes as they balanced tradition, work, and fun on the Jewish Lower East Side.

For more information contact the Tenement Museum, New York City at www.tenement.org

Walking Tour Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of 1982 ILGWU Strike in Chinatown, NYC
2022-06-18 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
In 1982, a strike — involving upwards of 20,000 Chinese immigrant women workers in hundreds of garment factories in Manhattan’s Chinatown — revived the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) and turned the tide of sweatshop labor for a generation. Members of ILGWU Local 23-25 led the strike, just as their Jewish and Italian sisters had seventy years earlier. Labor Arts and People’s Heritage Tours are conducting a walking tour to commemorate that moment in which yet another group of young immigrant women defied the low expectations of male union leaders and manufacturers to organize and fight against the conditions under which they were forced to work.

The tour will begin at the statue of Confucius at Confucius Plaza and walk to Columbus Park, the site of two mass rallies that electrified the city. The tour will continue through the neighborhood to visit the site of garment factories and other key places in the story of labor activism and community building. Along the way, we will meet veterans of the Chinese American labor movement of the 1980s. The tour will take place rain or shine.

The cost is $40. Portions of each ticket will go to Labor Arts.

Register here.

2022 Labor Notes Conference
2022-06-17 09:00 - 2022-06-19 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Registration is now open for the 2022 Labor Notes Conference.

WHEN: Friday, June 17, 9 a.m. – Sunday, June 19, 3 p.m. CDT

WHERE: Hyatt Regency O’Hare at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

The Labor Notes Conference is the biggest gathering out there of grassroots union activists, worker center leaders, and all-around troublemakers.

Join thousands of union members, officers, and labor activists who are on the front lines in our workplaces and our communities, organizing new workers and agitating together. Meet troublemakers from across the country and around the world.

More than 100 meetings and workshops include creative organizing tactics, beating apathy, running for local union office, winning contract campaigns, understanding the economy, and reviving the strike.

Organize with others in your union, industry, or campaign. Face-to-face meetings to share tactics and swap notes are the heart of the Labor Notes Conference. Join an existing industry, union, or caucus meeting—or contact us to set one up.For more information click here.

Art Exhibition of Art and Artists Connected to Staten Island
2022-06-10 00:00 - 2023-04-02 23:59 (America/New_York)
Yes, And explores what it means to be connected to Staten Island.

LuLu LoLo performing “Listening to the Birds,” an interactive presentation honoring the beauty of birds and bird songs at Yes, And: Art and Artists Connected to Staten Island.

More information at www.statenislandmuseum.org

Exhibition: Sewing in Kingston
2022-05-07 00:00 - 2022-12-31 23:59 (America/New_York) | Reher Center, 99-101 Broadway, Kingston, New York, 12401, United States
The Exhibit Sewing in Kingston at the Reher Center in Kingston, New York, showcases more than a century of Kingston’s rich history of garment manufacturing and the immigrant communities, entrepreneurs, and women whose work made it possible. You’ll learn about the ups and downs of Kingston’s garment industry, the persistence of small businesses, the imagination of artists, and the power of family. The exhibit will highlight the role of immigrants and women and connect local experiences to broader historical, cultural, and economic stories.

For more information visit www.rehercenter.org
