Labor Quiz: What's a "Scab herder"?
Monday, October 8, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)A “scab herder” is: a non-union sheep-herder, someone who accompanies scabs
into a struck workplace, or a disgusting personal habit? Click here and you could be
next week’s winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
Cabinet was known as Ike's "Nine Millionaires and a Plumber" Cabinet because it
included former Plumber’s Union President Martin Patrick Durkin, who had the
shortest tenure of any U.S. Labor Secretary, serving less than eight months.
Durkin had also previously served as Director of Labor for the State of
Illinois, where he worked closely with then-U.S. Labor Secretary Frances
Perkins. He also was a Democrat serving in a Republican administration, and
pushed for revisions in the Taft-Hartley Act without success, which led to his
resignation. He died two years after leaving office. (excerpted from the US
Dept of Labor News Brief newsletter) Congrats to long-time union lawyer
Jules Bernstein from Washington, DC, this week’s quiz winner!