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MUSIC  |  |  |  |  | Bev Grant’s We Were There is a tribute to women workers from cotton mills to coal mines to sweatshops. The CD includes the title song along with such well-known songs as “Which Side Are You On?” “Union Maid,” “De Colores” and “Those Who’ve Gone Before Us.” Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer-songwriter from Park Slope in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the founder and musical director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus and cultural director of the United Labor Educators Association Northeast Summer Institute for Union Women. $15. Available at The Union Shop Online™.
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 | | | | | Celebrate Women’s History Month in March with the latest version of the classic Rosie the Riveter T-shirt. The long-sleeve T-shirt bears the famous image of Rosie the Riveter, the symbol of women who worked in U.S. factories during World War II and the message that “A Woman’s Place Is in Her Union.” Did you know: Women are the fastest growing segment of union members—nearly 45 percent of all union members are women. $20. Available at The Union Shop Online™.
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BOOKS
 | | | | | Donna Brazile, the first African American to head a major presidential campaign, describes how the lessons she learned in her mother’s kitchen as a child in New Orleans prepared her for her political career in her behind-the-scenes memoir, Cooking With Grease. “The sacrifices and hardships that people like my mother faced taught me the best thing politics can do is make people’s lives just a little easier,” she says in the book’s prologue. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says the book shows why Brazile “is one of the most authentic leaders in politics today. If every political leader lived these values, it would transform American life.” Paperback. $13. Available at The Union Shop Online™. | | | | |
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 | | | | | In Nine Women, we learn that the legendary labor organizer Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, developed her hard-driving personality after she survived the deaths of her husband, a labor organizer, and their four children from yellow fever in 1867. Four years after these deaths, Harris suffered the destruction of her home and dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire. After that, she never had a permanent home and dedicated her life to fighting injustice. Mother Jones’ story is just one of the insightful biographical essays in the revised edition, originally published in 1977. The new edition includes biographies of other progressive women, such as Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bella Abzug and women in the environmental movement. $16.95. Paperback. Available at The Union Shop Online™. | | | | |
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WEBSIGHTING  | | | | | On the www.laborproject.org website, you will find some of the latest research and education materials for union members on developing workplace policies for families through collective bargaining and public policy. Work and family issues include child care, elder care, family leave, flexible work schedules, mandatory overtime and more. | | | | |
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