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A short history of a massive general strike of 20,000, mostly female and Jewish, garment workers which lasted 11 weeks and won significant improvements.

RETAIL: AN INTRODUCTION Picture, if you still can, the packed dressing room of a Loehmann’s, in the days before that deep-discount clothing emporium, its stores for decades a New York shopping icon, shuttered its doors. The lighting is grey, fluorescent, unflattering. But never mind, it signifies the business at hand: the sacred and profane ritual of communal shopping. Hooks and clothing racks line the dressing-room walls, but the focal point of the space is a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling mirror, reflecting dozens of pirouetting, preening bodies. Women. Women of all shapes, colors, sizes ...

Theo Bleckmann and brass quartet the Westerlies. Bleckmann’s elastic tenor has graced everything from Weimar cabaret revues to Meredith Monk, Kate Bush projects to the sound design for the film Men in Black. That breadth makes him an ideal collaborator for the Westerlies, who are not known for respecting genre-imposed musical boundaries. The program here includes material from Woody Guthrie, Bertholt Brecht and Joni Mitchell, among others, plus a handful of originals. Without a rhythm section and with a horn line of trumpets and trombones, there’s little traditional drive to the a...

Share this article Share this article PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Workers at CannTech LLC voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first-ever union agreement this week. The three-year agreement includes industry leading retirement benefits, wages and LGBTQ non-discrimination language. "We're thrilled to sign this agreement with CannTech!" UFCW Local 1776 President Wendell Young IV continued, "Medical cannabis patients will soon be able to look for the 'Union Label' on CannTech products as well as on the door of their soon to open dispensaries across the Commonwealth." CannTech op...

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