By John McNamara (Re-posted from 2023) Labor Day is not a time to be nostalgic about the struggles of the last century to organize factory floors that turned New Britain into a "union town" with its many thousands of factory jobs, most of which have been long lost to offshoring and globalization. On Labor Day … Continue reading New Britain’s Union Organizing History Is Worth Retelling on Labor Day
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Labor Day 2015: When “The Saturday Night Club” Remembered The Rise of New Britain Unions
By John McNamara The New Britain Saturday Night Club, founded in the 19th century, is an organization of professionals, industrialists, educators and the civic-minded whose members regularly gathered for some home-grown culture and education. None other than the "Learned Blacksmith" Elihu Burritt was a member starting in 1875 . The longstanding group is kind of … Continue reading Labor Day 2015: When “The Saturday Night Club” Remembered The Rise of New Britain Unions
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