Labor Quiz: Norma Rae's Awards
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)How many Academy Awards did “Norma Rae” -- the 1979 film about a textile
worker who organizes a union at her plant in North Carolina -- win? Was it 2, 3,
4 or none? Click here to
vote and you could be our winner!
Last
Week’s Quiz: IWW songwriter Ralph Chaplin finished writing "Solidarity
Forever" in 1915 for a hunger march in Chicago led by radical labor organizer
and anarchist Lucy Parsons; he’d begun writing it in 1914 during a miner’s
strike in Huntington, WV. The first verse: “When the union's inspiration
through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere
beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of
one, But the union makes us strong”