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January 09, 2026

Today in 1811
The largest slave revolt in U.S. history begins on Louisiana sugar plantations. Slaves armed with hand tools marched toward New Orleans, setting plantations and crops on fire, building their numbers to an estimated 300-500 as they went. The uprising lasted for two days before being brutally suppressed by the military.

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Every Worker Should Know About Washington Aluminum
Posted On: Jan 07, 2026
Jan. 7, 2026 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | […] Working conditions throughout this country would be much better if workers knew their Washington Aluminum rights the same way that people who grew up watching television know their Miranda rights. In brief, the right protected by Washington Aluminum is the right for any group of workers to walk off the job without notice to protest any aspect of their working conditions. The facts of the case were simple and largely uncontested. On a January morning in 1959, when the outside temperature was 15 degrees, eight machinists came to work at a metal fabricating company and found that the furnace was broken… On Labor
 
 
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