The 2027 calendar features photographs commemorating 120 years of labor struggles, from the Ashio (Japan) copper miners’ rebellion of 1907 to the 1985 Bolivian general strike that toppled the government. We remember the 1945 sit-down strike by PanAm maintenance workers that launched a wave of union organizing across the airline industry and the 2018 strike by 20,000 West Virginia teachers demanding better school funding and an end to attacks on their health benefits. We honor the 1945 national strike by oil refinery workers demanding an end to 52-hour work weeks – insisting that 36 hours was more than enough – and solidarity efforts around the world that brought some 50 million workers into the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair. As attacks on our immigrant fellow workers are once again ramping up, an essay recounts general strikes from Argentina to the Colorado coal fields and the streets of Paris, demanding freedom and an end to the persecution of militant workers.
In this era of global attacks against labor, it is more necessary than ever to remember – and to learn from – our history.
The calendar opens to 11 by 17 inches, features a full-color cover, and black and white photos from labor history for each month. It is union printed. $17.95 postpaid for individual copies mailed to addresses outside North America. (Our e-commerce program has disabled free shipping; this will display as $12.95 plus $5 shipping)