Henry Foner On Pete Seeger’s Legacy
Labor activist and educator Henry Foner, a longtime member of NYLHA’s Executive Board, was quoted on the importance of Pete Seeger to the labor movement by the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Read the article here.
Introducing the NYLHA Working Group
NYLHA Working Group Poster
The NYLHA Working Group is an energetic group of young people who have been holding monthly meetings since January 2013. They organized a night of short films on contemporary organizing drives for the very successful Second Annual Workers Unite! Film Festival in May 2013.
Their latest project is a poster now being widely distributed among unions and labor history groups. The aim of the poster is to attract a new generation of labor activists. Together they continue to work to create programs and opportunities to learn about the hidden history of labor.
Currently, they are working on organizing walking tours, setting up a book club, and organizing an evening of films for the upcoming Third Annual Workers Unite! Film Festival.
Interested? E-mail them at [email protected], or join their Facebook group: New York Labor History Association Working Group.
Download the PDF version of the poster here: NYLHA learn history poster
December 3 2013: John Commerford Labor Education Awards Reception
Our thanks to everyone who made the John Commerford Labor Education Awards reception, held on December 3, 2013, so successful. This includes the more than 150 people who attended; the awardees; Barbara Bowen, President of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, and Eric Foner, prize winning historian, for their excellent remarks; Gail Malmgreen for coordinating the event; Rachel Bernstein for her help in securing the site and other important support; Regina Olff for arranging for the food; Loraine Baratti, Art Fleischner, Philoine Fried, Jane Latour and Kimberly Schiller for their work at the event; President George Gresham, President of 1199 SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East, for providing the site; and our patrons whose financial support made the evening possible:
- AFSCME, DC 37
- Center for Worker Education, CCNY
- Larry Cary, Esq.
- Local 372, DC 37
- Local 1930, DC 37
- New York State United Teachers
- Organization of Staff Analysts
- Professional Staff Congress/CUNY
- United Federation of Teachers
More details on the wonderful event will follow in our next newsletter, Work History News, which will be mailed out to members and available on this website soon!