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Can you believe it’s already been five years of the USW Solidarity Works podcast? We’re celebrating the milestone by highlighting five of our most downloaded episodes, including our story about Immigrant Power and the Bread and Roses Strike. On Jan. 11, 1912, a group of Polish women weavers at a textile mill in Lawrence, Mass., shut down their machines, refusing to labor any more without the proper pay. What resulted was one of the most monumental strikes in U.S. labor history. Listen here: http

In this installment of USW Artifacts, USW International Secretary-Treasurer Myles Sullivan shares a meaningful story not only in his own Steelworkers lineage, but one that’s also important to Canadian labor history and labor law. Listen as Myles tell the story of the Kirkland Lake, Ontario, where 4,000 miners, including his grandfather, went on strike for the right to organize with the Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, who eventually became members of the United Steelworkers Union in 1967.

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