Uelein Gets Joe Hill Award Tuesday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Local activist and musician Joe Uehlein will receive the Joe Hill Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation (LHF) at the 28th Annual Great Labor Arts Exchange (GLAE) at the National Labor College on Tuesday, June 20. Uehlein, a labor organizer and arts-activist for over three decades, will perform with his band, The U-Liners, as part of Tuesday night’s concert featuring the art and music of those attending the LHF’s three-day Great Labor Arts Exchange. More than 100 people are attending the Great Labor Arts Exchange and Conference on Creative Organizing, which features workshops on labor choruses, digital photography, theater for education, poetry, drumming for justice and more. Joe Uehlein is founder of the Labor Heritage Foundation, and has been performing labor and political music over 30 years, playing in hundreds of union halls, on picket lines, and at political gatherings of all kinds.  Uehlein performed at the White House for President Jimmy Carter, and at the mammoth Solidarity Day demonstration where over 500,000 gathered on the mall to protest the policies of Ronald Reagan.