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”