Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!

A chat with Owen Smith, who’s directing “Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!”Saturday, June 17 at the Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, New York; the musical tells the story of the 1864 Troy Collar Laundry Union Strike.
The Kate Mullany National Historic Site opened on June 10; Mullany organized the Troy Collar Laundry Union, the nation's first all-female union.

On this week’s Labor History in Two:  The day Consumers Power Company employees near Flint, Michigan shut off generators and turbines at the Zilwaukee power plant.

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