Labor Quiz: Norma Rae's Awards

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Labor Quiz: Norma Rae's Awards(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”

 

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