Labor Quiz: Electrifying
Monday, April 2, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The seal of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers includes 10
bolts of lightning; do they represent the IBEW’s different trades, the major
principles of electricity, or the union’s founders? Click here to submit your
answer and you could be next week’s quiz winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney, was the
correct answer to last week’s quiz. The future Governor of Michigan, then with
the Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, called legendary UAW President
Walter Reuther "the most dangerous man in Detroit" for the labor leader’s
skill in "bringing about...revolution without seeming to disturb the
existing...society," notes this week’ s quiz winner, reader Zelly Lodin of the
California Nurses Association. “Like father, like son,” adds Joel Rosenblit,
a retired member of CWA 7901.